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<DIV><FONT size=4>Don't rubbish today's Peters for wanting to prolong great
religious experiences. Good on them. It's worth a try. But some- where along the
line we're faced with coming to terms with <I>ourselves as God's tent! </I>And
when it's time to move on it's time to move on & pitch ourselves somewhere
else. <I>Wearing our tent inside us</I>. (A bit like Bo-Peep's sheep wag their
tails, only on the inside!) <I>We</I> are God's glory, God's tent, even the echo
of God's voice, still & small or loud & clear. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/matthew0/MIM1719TRANSFIGLASTEPORLENT2.html">http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/matthew0/MIM1719TRANSFIGLASTEPORLENT2.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT size=4>Brian McGowan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In his <EM>Life of Nero,</EM> Suetonius (75–160) derided
Christians as "a set of men adhering to a novel and mischievous superstition."
In his <EM>Annals,</EM> Tacitus (c. 60–120) sneered at the "pernicious
superstitions" of believers. For Pliny the Younger (62–113), governor of
Pontus-Bithynia (in modern Turkey) from 111–113, the many Christians under his
rule posed a practical problem. In two famous letters to the emperor Trajan he
expressed frustration about how to prosecute believers: "I judged it so much the
more necessary to extract the real truth, with the assistance of torture, from
two female slaves, who were styled deaconesses, but I could discover nothing
more than depraved and excessive superstition."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.journeywithjesus.net/Essays/20080128JJ.shtml">http://www.journeywithjesus.net/Essays/20080128JJ.shtml</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Daniel B. Clendenin, 2008</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jesus' transfiguration on the mountain gives us a vision of
the glory we anticipate for the whole world once Jesus' redeeming work among us
in complete -- and God knows we need to be people of vision to see the journey
to its completion. But the speed with which that glory subsides on the mountain
and our journeying with Jesus in what follows reminds us that the redemption of
the world we anticipate is not just a distant hope of a light and a voice now
beyond the clouds; it is here with us, to be seen and touched in service to
those present with whom Jesus suffers, in love of those who embrace or scorn, in
the fellowship of Christ's Body and the work of reconciliation with all whom God
loves -- with all that God has made.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.sarahlaughed.net/lectionary/2005/01/last_sunday_aft.html">http://www.sarahlaughed.net/lectionary/2005/01/last_sunday_aft.html</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Sarah Dylan Breuer, 2005</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>...the glistening white, even more striking in Matthew, and
echoing the prediction of Daniel 12 that the righteous will shine like stars in
the sky. Matthew uses such imagery also in the interpretation of the parable of
the wheat and weeds (13:43). In other words, the scene is painted in colours
drawn from visions of the eschaton. The vision portrays in advance what will be
seen when the kingdom comes.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/MtTransfiguration.htm">http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/MtTransfiguration.htm</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>William Loader</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The word, “booths,” is the Greek word, “skaynay” which means
tabernacles or tents. We ask a question: “Why would Peter suggest to erect three
tents for these three greatest figures of Jewish history out there in the
wilderness?” Traditionally, one of the Jewish religious feasts was the Feast of
the Tabernacles/Tents in which the Jews remembered that they were out in the
wilderness for forty years, living in tents, and that God was with them as they
lived in their tents in the wildness. Perhaps, having hiked way out to the
wilderness area of Mount Hermon, Peter was reminded of the wilderness stories in
the Old Testament, and the festival of the wilderness, the Feast of Tabernacles.
Just as the Jews erected tents from tree limbs for the wilderness Feast of
Tabernacles, so Peter and the disciples should erect tents in their current
situation, to remember God’s miraculous presence with them in the wilderness.
That may have been Peter’s logic. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_b_trasnfigurationGA.htm">http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_b_trasnfigurationGA.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Edward F. Markquart</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>...here Moses represents the Law and Elijah the
prophets.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/aepflm.shtml">http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/aepflm.shtml</A>?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Chris Haslam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><EM>Verse 1</EM>: “a high mountain”: This may be symbolic; if
a particular mountain is meant, it is probably Mount Hermon, near Caesarea
Philippi. It rises to about 2,750 metres (9,000 feet). Other possibilities are
Mount Carmel and Mount Tabor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/aepfll.shtml">http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/aepfll.shtml</A>?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Chris Haslam</FONT></DIV>
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