For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Christ displayed His divine majesty in celestial glory before those three disciples, the bright cloud itself declaring His presence with awful solemnity. The Father's voice naming Him Son and announcing His pleasure, this is the full evidence for the gospel we need, for in being known as the One the Father sent, we possess our highest wisdom.
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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
The Father did not add glory to Christ as if bestowing something absent, for He was already the brightness of His Father's glory; rather, God declared and testified to the honor belonging to Him as the Son, and an external glory shone upon Him as the Son of Man. That voice came from the excellent glory, the cloud, or from heaven itself, God's habitation.
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