36. Jesus was found alone--Moses and Elias are gone. Their work is
done, and they have disappeared from the scene, feeling no doubt with
their fellow servant the Baptist, "He must increase, but I must
decrease." The cloud too is gone, and the naked majestic Christ, braced
in spirit, and enshrined in the reverent affection of His disciples, is
left--to suffer!
kept it close--feeling, for once at least, that such things were
unmeet as yet for the general gaze.
JFB.
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