were greatly amazed "was astonied and much afraid," Rhemish Version. His face would seem, like that of Moses (Exodus 34:30), to have retained traces of the celestial glory of the Holy Mount, which had not faded into the light of common day, and filled the beholders with awe and wonder. The word points to an extremity of terror. It is used four times in the New Testament, and only by St Mark. What is here said of the multitudes is said (Mark 14:34) of our Lord in Gethsemane, and (Mark 16:5) of the holy women at the Sepulchre on the first Easter-day at the sight of the Angel seated, "they were affrighted."

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