Transfiguration

[ UK /tɹænsfˌɪɡjʊɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
  2. (New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus
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How To Use Transfiguration In A Sentence

  • Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it -- the first three. How to become like Christ
  • In the transfiguration the announcement of divine sonship is flanked by sayings of the necessity of the cross.
  • Of this future glory of the coming Christ, three of the disciples were to catch a foregleam only eight days later on the Mount of Transfiguration, and Jesus therefore adds, “There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.” The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition
  • Any transfiguration was a kind of death; a passing away of what had been in order to make room for what was to come. GALILEE
  • Blink at the stage and you could have been looking at an icon of the Transfiguration.
  • To whom was Jesus praying in Gethsemane, and Who was speaking to Him and his apostles on the Mount of Transfiguration? Balkinization
  • Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
  • The feast of the Transfiguration, so venerated by the Orthodox Church, serves as a key to the understanding of the humanity of Christ in the Eastern tradition.
  • He points at Matthew, whose face is a study in transformation, indeed transfiguration.
  • Just then his face underwent a sudden transfiguration and fell softer. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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