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MATTHEW 17:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 17:2Matt 17:4
“And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.”
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him. The appearance of Moses and Elijah — the great representatives of the Law and the Prophets — communicates that Jesus is the fulfillment of both. Luke 9:31 reveals that their conversation concerned Jesus' exodus (departure) which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem — connecting the transfiguration directly to the passion that Matthew 16:21 has just predicted. Moses and Elijah are conversing with the one toward whom all their work pointed.

Church Fathers on Matthew 17:3

In this Transfiguration undergone on the mount, the Lord fulfilled within six days the promise made to His disciples, that they should have a sight of His glory; as it is said, 'And after six days he took Peter, and James, and John his brother.'

Remigius · 9th century

It is made a question how it could be after six days that He took them, when Luke says eight. The answer is easy, that here one reckoned only the intervening days, there the first and the last are also added.

Jerome · 4th century

He does not take them up immediately upon the promise being made, but six days after, for this reason, that the other disciples might not be touched with any human passion, as a feeling of jealousy; or else that during these days' space, those disciples who were to be taken up might become kindled with a more eager desire.

Chrysostom · 4th century
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