these sayings—not what was passing between them about His grandeur [MEYER, etc.], but what He was now to repeat for the second time about His sufferings [DE WETTE, STIER, ALFORD, etc.]; that is, "Be not carried off your feet by all this grandeur of Mine, but bear in mind what I have already told you, and now distinctly repeat, that that Sun in whose beams ye now rejoice is soon to set in midnight gloom." "The Son of man," says Christ, "into the hands of men"—a remarkable antithesis (also in Matthew 17:22, and Mark 9:31).
DEMONIAC AND LUNATIC BOY HEALED—CHRIST'S SECOND EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. (Luke 9:37-45)
the mighty power of God—"the majesty" or "mightiness" of God in this last miracle, the transfiguration, etc.: the divine grandeur of Christ rising upon them daily. By comparing Matthew 17:22, and Mark 9:30, we gather that this had been the subject of conversation between the Twelve and their Master as they journeyed along.
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