I. The Transfiguration throws light on the meaning of Christ's Passion. It shows that glory was His natural state, according to His own thought: "Now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own Self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was."
II. Evidently, one object of this scene was to confirm the faith of the disciples in the Divine Nature of a suffering Redeemer.
III. This scene bears close relation to the Resurrection. On the former occasion Christ distinctly foretells His death, in the evening retires, and at night is transfigured. Again, at the Transfiguration He had two witnesses from the world of spirits, besides His three disciples; and in His Passion an angel from the unseen world is present, and the same three disciples; while, again, at the tomb, out of the same three Apostles two are found, as well as two witnesses from the unseen world.
C. W. Furse, Sermons at Richmond,p. 177.
References: Luke 9:28; Luke 9:29. Homiletic Magazine,vol. vi., p. 24; W. Wilson, Christ setting His Face to go to Jerusalem,p. 185.Luke 9:28-32. H. N. Grimley, Tremadoc Sermons,p. 10. Luke 9:28-36. Homiletic Quarterly,vol. i., p. 476; Preacher's Monthly,vol. iii., p. 239; S. D. Thomas, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxv., p. 54; G. Macdonald, Miracles of Our Lord,p. 272.