2 PETER 1:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty — apologies against mythologizing were common in philosophical polemic, but Peter grounds apostolic authority in eyewitness experience (autóptai). The majesty (megaleiótēs) refers specifically to the transfiguration. The denial of mythology preemptively addresses Docetic or Gnostic spiritualization that would deny incarnate reality.
Church Fathers on 2 Peter 1:16
And so while He was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear Him. The Father was indeed present in the Son, and in the Lord's brightness, which He had tempered to the disciples' sight, the Father's Essence was not separated from the Only-begotten: but, in order to emphasize the two-fold personality, as the effulgence of the Son's body displayed the Son to their…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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