silent prayer of each, or Jesus now prayed alone and apart."

On the banks of the Jordan, where Jesus and the three had met, while He
"was praying, the heavens were opened," and the dove-like form descended
upon Him, and His Father's voice was heard. And now "as He prayed,"
there came an answer, immediate and glorious: "He was transfigured
before them."

The disciples though "weighted with sleep," "having remained awake, they
saw His glory, and the two men that stood with Him." It was many years
after this vision that John, speaking for the three, testified, "We saw
His glory."

"The fashion of His countenance was altered." "His face did shine as
the sun." "His garments became exceeding white; so as no fuller on earth
can whiten them," "white as the light," "glistering," "dazzling."

"Behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with Him." How
did the disciples know the Lawgiver and the Prophet? We are not told.
There may have been given them some supernatural powers of discernment.
They may have known by the conversation between Jesus and His celestial
visitants, as, in earthly language with heavenly tone, they "spoke of
His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem," of which
He had told them on the plain below.

It was that Moses who fifteen hundred years before came down from Mount
Sinai with the two tables of the law in his hands, when Aaron and the
children of Israel stood in awe before His shining face. But now He had
come, not from the mount which Paul describes as "darkness," but unto
that other whose snowy whiteness has given it the name of Lebanon. He