Mar
17
2010
From within
“Jesus was transfigured, the passive form of the verb serving to emphasize that what he experienced was something granted to him by God the Father. . . . The mysterious change was not from without, as though some giant spotlight became focused on him, but from within. His countenance was affected first, then his garments. . . . What appeared to the sight of men as light expressed the inward perfection that could be described in terms of fullness of grace and truth. We read that Satan tries to transform himself into an angel of light, but there is no correspondence between the outward guise he assumes for the purpose of beguiling the unwary and the inner diabolical reality.”
Everett F. Harrison, A Short Life of Christ (Grand Rapids, 1968), pages 154-155.