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Mat_17:3. Αὐτοῖς ] the disciples, Mat_17:2. They saw conversing with Jesus, Moses and Elias, who, as forerunners of the Messiah, represented the law and the prophets (Schoettgen, Wetstein). Comp. Mat_17:5; Mat_17:8. It was not from what Jesus told them afterwards that they came first to know who those two were, but they themselves recognised them at once (Mat_17:4), though not from their conversation, as has been arbitrarily supposed (Theophylact). The recognition was immediate and directly involved in the marvellous manifestation itself.
The subject of conversation, so far as the accounts of Matthew and Mark are concerned, does not appear to have been once inquired into. According to Ebrard, Jesus communicated to the fathers of the old dispensation the blessed intelligence of his readiness to redeem them by His death. According to Luk_9:31, Moses and Elias converse with Jesus about His impending death.