I’d post this on the Historic Lectionary blog, but I need the Logomaniac to up my permissions (hint hint). St. Ephraem on the Transfiguration: He took them therefore up to the mountain, that He might show them His Kingdom, before they witnessed His suffering and death; and His glory before His ignominy: so that when He was made a prisoner, and condemned by the Jews, they might understnad that He was not crucified by them because of His own powerlessness, but because it had pleased Him of His goodness to suffer, for the salvation of the world. He brought them up to the mountain that He might also show them, before His Resurrection, the glory of His Divinity, so that when He had risen…