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The Transfiguration and Adam

G. Campbell Morgan, The Crises of the Christ (Kregel, 1989: Grand Rapids), p.167

God’s humanity has blossomed once in the course of the ages, and that transfigured Man upon the holy mount, flashing in the splendour of a light like the sun, glistering with the glory of a whiteness like that of the snow, and flaming with the magnificent beauty of the lightning which flashes its radiance upon the darkness, that was God’s perfect Man. That was the realisation of the thought that was in the mind of God when He said, �Let Us make man in Our image.�

Obviously there is a lot more to the argument than what appears here.� But the conclusion I came to in looking at it is that the Transfiguration was not a beam of divine glory –was not Christ’s preincarnate glory temporarily shining through the veil of humiliation.� It was God’s approval of Him as the perfect man, the fulfiller of the covenant of works, the one who could go to the cross as the head of a new, resurrected humanity.

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