“While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.”
While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud — the cloud (nephelē, the Shekinah cloud of divine presence) covers the disciples as they enter it — the immersive encounter with the divine presence. They were afraid as they entered the cloud: the fear of entering the divine presence is the appropriate response to genuine theophany.
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