The companions of the transfiguration next engage our atten- (continued)
4. THE DiscipLes' DELIGHT Now turn to the great pleasure and satisfaction that the disciples took in the sight of Christ's glory. Peter, as usual, spoke for the rest. ''Lord, it is good for us to be here." Peter here expresses:
(a) The delight they had in this converse. '' Lord, it is good for us to be here."" Though upon a "high mountain"' which we may suppose rough and unpleasant, bleak and cold, yet it is "good to be here''. He speaks the sense of his fellow-disciples. It is not only good for me; it is good for us. He did not covet to monopolise this favour, but gladly takes them in. He says this to Christ. Pious and devout affections love to pour themselves out before the Lord Jesus. The soul that loves Christ, and loves to be with Him, loves to go and tell Him so. "Lord, it is good for us to be here." This shows a thankful acknowledgement of His kindness in admitting them to this favour.
Communion with Christ is the delight of Christians. All the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ reckon it is good for them to be with Him in the holy mount; it is good to be here where
Christ is, and brings us along with Him by His appointment. It is good to be here, retired and alone with Christ; to be here, where we may behold the beauty of the Lord Jesus. It is pleasant to hear Christ compare notes with Moses and the prophets— to see how all the institutions of the law, and all the predictions of the prophets, pointed at Christ and were fulfilled in Him.
(b) The desire they had to continue this converse. '' Let us make here three tabernacles."" There was in this, as in many other of Peter's sayings, a mixture of weakness and of good will, more zeal than discretion. Here was a zeal for this converse with heavenly things, a laudable complacency in the sight they had of Christ's glory. Those who by faith behold the beauty of the Lord in His house cannot but desire to dwell there all the days of their life. It is good having a nail in God's holy place (Ezra ix. 8); a constant abode; to be in holy ordinances, as a man at home, not as a wayfaring man. Peter thought this mountain was a fine spot of ground to build upon. He was for making three tabernacles there, as Moses in the wilderness made a tabernacle for the Shekinah or divine glory. It argued great respect for His Master and the heavenly guests, with some commendable forgetfulness of himself and his fellow disciples, that he would