‘And while he said these things, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud.'

And even while he was speaking a cloud came down and overshadowed ‘them'. This ‘them' may indicate the three glorious figures (Mark says that God spoke out of the cloud), or it may include all being enveloped by God (Mark can be interpreted in this way). This descent of the cloud had happened also on Mount Sinai, (compare Exodus 24:15), and it had indicated the presence of the living God, there to speak with Moses. Here then God had enclosed the three with His divine presence. And here He was bearing testimony to Jesus from the cloud to the disciples (see 2 Peter 1:16).

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