[Sidenote: Mar. 9. 2, 3.] [Sidenote: Luk. 9. 28.] [Sidenote: Rom. 12. 2.] [Sidenote: 2 Cor. 3. 18.] [Sidenote: Luk. 9. 29.] [Sidenote: Exod. 34. 33, 34, 35.] 3. We find also external Transfiguration, as of Christ in the Mountain; for the Text saith, in St. _Matthews_ Gospel: _And he was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the Sun, and his raiment was white as the light_. And _Mark_ saith: _And he was transfigured before them, and his raiment became shining exceeding white as snow: so as no fuller on earth can white them_. And St. _Luke_ saith: _And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glittering_. The word used in those places for the transfiguring or altering of his face by St. _Matthew_ and St. _Mark_ is μετεμορφώθη, from μετὰ _trans_, and μορφὴ _forma_, _figura_, the outward form, shape, figure, or lineaments; and this word is also used for the change or transforming of the mind, will, desires, and affections: For so the Apostle saith: _And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind_. And again he saith: _We behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord with open face: and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory_. But St. _Luke_ instead of this word expresseth it thus: τὸ εἶδος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἕτερον. _Tremellius_ renders it: _Transformatus est aspectus vultûs ejus_. And _Beza_: _Species vultûs ejus alia_, which is nearest the Greek. So _Moses_ face, when he had been with the Lord upon the Mount, the skin of it did shine, so that he put a veil upon it, when he spoke to the people, and put it off when he went in to speak unto the Lord. So that these were external alterations of both Christs and _Moses_ face, by appearing glorious, resplendent, and shining like the Sun, and this was wrought by a divine hand and power. From whence we may note, 1. That though Christ was thus gloriously transformed (for so the word doth bear) yet we are not to imagine, that Christ was essentially changed into some other substance or nature; no, but that he was rather made there most resplendent in glory.