And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.
Peter calls it the holy mount because wherever the Lord appears, He sanctifies all things by His presence, just as the ground was holy where God met Moses. This teaches us to prepare ourselves for holiness whenever He draws near, as the people were commanded at Sinai: Be ye holy, for I am holy.
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The gospel is no idle tale spun by cunning deceivers, but the infinitely wise counsel of God Himself. When we preach Christ's power to save to the uttermost and His coming in the flesh, we declare what the Spirit of Christ guides us to proclaim, what all the Old Testament saints died believing.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:16-18
Peter, James, and John heard this voice together, sufficient witnesses to what they saw and heard. The mount is called holy from His presence upon it, the Holy One Himself; and this declaration of Christ's glory from God the Father was to them confirming evidence that He would come again in power and glory.
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