One of our leading Theological Magazines [The Expository Times, October 1903] referred to the subject of the Transfiguration; and in its “Notes of Recent Exposition” opened its issue with these words: There is no outstanding event in the life of our Lord so disappointing as the Transfiguration. It seems so great: we get so little out of it. It is not that we do not fathom it. We may not fathom the Temptation. But we get a great deal of meaning out of the Temptation, and we think we understand the purpose of it. Out of the Transfiguration we get very little either for science or edification.
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