And what did _Moses_ and _Elias_ on the Mount with _Jesus_? Was it in their own proper Persons that they appear'd? or were they only some Spectres and Apparitions in resemblance of them? It is said, that they were talking with _Jesus_; what then did they talk about? The three greatest Prophets and Philosophers of the Universe could not possibly meet and confer together, but on the most sublime, useful, and edifying Subject. Its strange that the Apostles, who over-heard their Confabulation, did not make a Report of it, and transmit it to Posterity for our Edification and Instruction. St. _Luke_, as our _English_ Translation has it, seems to say that they talk'd together of _Jesus_'s _Decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem_; but this can't be the Meaning of St. _Luke_'s[57] Words, which so interpreted, are no less than a _Barbarism_, and, I appeal to our Greek _Criticks_, an Improper Expression of such Signification. We must then look for a more proper Construction of the Phrase in St. _Luke_, or we must remain in the Dark, as to the Subject, that _Moses_ and _Elias_ talked with _Jesus_ about. But further, Why could not this Miracle have been wrought in the Valley as well as upon a Mountain, whither _Jesus_ and his three Apostles ascended for the Work of it? Naughty _Infidels_ will say, it was for the Advantage of a Cloud, which often moves and rests on the Tops of Mountains, to display his Pranks in. And why was it not done in the Presence of the Multitude, as well as of his three Apostles? The more Witnesses of a Miracle, the better it is attested, and the more reasonably credited; and there could not surely be too many Witnesses of this, any more than of others of _Jesus_'s Miracles, if real ones. Ought not the unbelieving Multitude, for many Unbelievers unquestionably were amongst them, to have had a Sight and Hearing of this Miracle, as well as the Apostles? Who should rather see the Miracle, than those who wanted Conviction? Were they to take the Report of the Miracle upon the Word of the Apostles, who were Parties in the Cause? Our _Divines_ may possibly say they ought: But _Infidels_ and _Free-Thinkers_ would cry out against them, for juggling Tricks, and pious Impostures. These are all Difficulties and hard Questions about the Miracle of Christ's Transfiguration, which our _Clergy_, who are Admirers of the Letter of that Story, are obliged to account for; and I believe it will be long enough before they give a proper and satisfactory Answer to many of them.