Transfiguration and Type
Just as types were sketched out there that anticipated later realities, so on this mountain truth appears. There we encountered mist, here the sun; there darkness, here a cloud of light; there the Law of the Decalogue, here the eternal Word who exists before all words; there fleshly riddles, here divine things. There, on the mountain, the tablets were broken because of impious behavior, here hearts are made wise for their salvation
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(2013). Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (B. E. Daley, Trans.). St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.