He led them up the mountain and showed them His kingship before His passion, and His power before His death, and His glory before His disgrace, and His honour before His dishonour, so that, when He was arrested and crucified by the Jews, they might know that He was not crucified through weakness, but willingly by His good pleasure for the salvation of the world.

He led them up the mountain and showed the glory of His divinity before the Resurrection, so that when He rose from the dead in the glory of His divine nature, they might know that it was not because of His harsh toil that He accepted glory, as if He lacked it, but it was His before the ages with the Father — as He said as He was coming to His voluntary passion: 'Father, glorify Me with the glory which I had with You before the world existed' (John 17:5).

And so on the mountain, He showed His Apostles the glory of His divinity, concealed and hidden by His humanity. For they saw His face bright as lightning and His garments white as light. They saw two suns: one in the sky, as usual, and one unusually; one visible in the firmament and lightening the world, and one — His face — visible to them alone.

His garments white as light showed that the glory of His divinity flooded from His whole body, and His light shone from all His members. For His flesh did not shine with splendour from outside, like Moses (Exodus 34:29–34), but the glory of His divinity flooded from Him. His light dawned and was drawn together in Him.

Nor did it depart somewhere else and leave Him, because it did not come from another place and adorn Him, nor was it for His use. And He did not display the whole depth of His glory, but only as much as the limits of their eyes could encompass.