I. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF LIFE. "And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them." - MARK 9: 2. T was not without reason that a mountain was IT selected as the locality of this remarkable incident in the history of our Lord. It was directly in the line of long precedent. From the beginning of the world the most signal manifestations of God had been made on lonely summits. It was on the peaks of Ararat that the covenant was made with Noah, and the glittering bow arched from horizon to horizon the seal set to the divine promise. It was on the bald shoulder of Moriah that the angel of Jehovah appeared to Abraham, and the rude altar which the patriarch built there was the hint and prophecy of the great temple which afterwards crowned the slope. It was on the towering heights of Sinai that God gave the law to Moses. It was among the awful crags of Horeb that the Lord strong and mighty passed by |