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 the cloud! No wonder that when he came down, "the skin of his face shone" as the record says.

Then we read in the gospel by Matthew (17th chapter): "And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, James and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. . . And as they came down from the mountain. Jesus charged them, saying. Tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man be risen again from the dead." This is the way Jesus appeared to the disciples when their spiritual eyes were opened: "his face did shine as the sun." That it was with their spiritual and not with their natural eyes that the disciples saw Jesus on that occasion, is evident; 1st, from the fact that they saw Moses and Elias at the same time, and these persons, being spirits and long time dwellers in the spiritual world, could not be seen by any eyes but those of the spirit; and 2d, from the Lord's own words, "Tell the vision to no man," etc. A vision is a supernatural appearance—something seen with the spiritual and not with the natural eyes.

Again, the seer of Patmos tells us that, "being in the spirit on the Lord's day," he heard behind him a great voice," saying: I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last." And turning to see whence the voice came, he says: "I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of Man . . . and his countenance was as the sun shineth