John Gill's Exposition on Luke 9:34

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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While he thus spake there came a cloud, etc.] While Peter was making the above request, before an answer was returned, a cloud appeared, a very uncommon one, as a symbol of the divine presence: “and overshadowed them”; Jesus, Moses, Elias, and the disciples: and they feared as they entered into the cloud; either as they themselves entered into it, that coming gradually over them, because of the glory of it, and the solemnity that attended it; or as Moses and Elias entered into it; and so the Syriac and Persic versions read, “they feared when they saw Moses and Elias enter into the cloud”; which took them out of their sight: just as the cloud received Jesus out of the sight of his disciples, when he ascended to heaven, (<440109>Acts 1:9).

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