Mat. 17:5. "While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him." This cloud was not bright merely as clouds are oftentimes very bright by the reflection of the light of the sun. But there was a more excellent and glorious brightness in it, which is a suitable symbol of the Divine presence, such as, perhaps, was in the Shekinah or cloud above the mercy-seat in the Tabernacle and Temple. Peter, speaking of the glory of this cloud, calls it "the excellent glory," 2 Peter 1:17. Luke says they feared as they entered into the cloud; it was of the appearance of Divine majesty and glory that was in the cloud.

Mat. 17:21

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