A Life of St. John for the Young
Chapter 16
JOHN A BEHOLDER OF CHRIST'S GLORY
Family Prayer--Sayings of Men Concerning Jesus--Saying of Peter--A Great Need--Christ's Prophecy of His Death--Apart by Themselves--Not Tabor, but Hermon--Thoughts of the Nine and of the Three--Heavy with Sleep--Answers to Two Prayers of Jesus--Transfigured--Moses and Elijah--Moses' Shining Face--The Lord's Shining Figure--The Shechinah--A Strange Proposal--Voice from the Clouds--Touch and Word of Jesus--Descent from Hermon--A Great Secret--Peter's Memory of the Transfiguration--John's Record--Greater than John the Baptist or Moses--Moses and the Shechinah--Ungranted Request, but Answered Prayer--Hermon, a Mount of Prayer 101