The fashion of his countenance was altered,— The appearance, &c. was changed. See on Matthew 17:2. This was so striking a circumstance, that Eunapius relates a story of Jamblichus, which seems evidently to be borrowed from this; (Vit. Jamb. p. 22.) as many things which Philostratus tells us of Apollonius Tyanaeus seem also to be borrowed from other circumstances recorded of Christ by the evangelists. The words λευκος εξαστραπτων, which we render white and glistering, may be literally rendered white as lightning;—splendid and dazzling as the blaze of lightning.
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Luke 9:29
29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.