NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 9:28

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About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

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Verse 28. Mountain, and so forth—Since Christ has ascended the mountain, both to pray and to be transfigured, all of us who hope for the fruit of his resurrection, and long to see the king in his glory, must dwell in heaven by our thoughts, and apply our minds to continual prayer. Ven. Bede.

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