He Who of old spoke through symbols to Moses on Mount Sinai saying:
“I am He Who is,”
was transfigured today upon Mount Tabor before the Disciples.
In His own person He showed them the nature of man
arrayed in the original beauty of the Image.
Calling Moses and Elijah to be witnesses of this surpassing grace,
He made them partakers of the gladness,//
foretelling His death on the Cross and His saving Resurrection.
-- From (Byzantine) Great Vespers of the Transfiguration
