| Psalms 103:2
| And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:
| Light. In this manner he always appeared, 1 Timothy 6:16., and Exodus 3:2. (Calmet) --- Christ only once assumed such a glorious form at this transfiguration, because he came to instruct our mind and heart. (Berthier) --- Stretchest. Hebrew and Septuagint have the verbs in the third person, till ver. 6., as the Vulgate has here extendens. But St. Jerome and others agree with us, though St. Paul quotes according to the Hebrew, ver. 4. (Haydock) --- Pavilion. The idea of the heavens resting like a tent upon the earth was very prevalent, Job 9:8., and Isaias 40:22.
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