136. The Prayer Of Peter On The Mount.

The Prayer Of Peter On The Mount. The Prayer as recorded.—Luke 9:33. The Answer.—Luke 9:34-36.

It is the hour of prayer, for our Savior has taken with him his three disciples, Peter, James, and John, for the especial object of devotion, and we are expressly told they went up into a mountain to pray. It was on this occasion the wonderful scene of the transfiguration of Christ occurred, and the amazement created by it in the mind of Peter bewildered him so that he scarcely knew what he was saying.

Two angelic beings were near the Savior, talking with him. They were the glorified spirits of Elias and Moses. Peter’s prayer seems prompted by a fear that these beings would disappear. Dr. Kitto says Moses and Elias were the chiefs of the law and the prophets, who came, as it were, to give testimony and homage to the Consummator, who had in these latter days appeared, to finish the work which they had in their day been employed to advance and prepare.