{"id":5528,"date":"2021-08-17T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2021-08-17T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:59:01","slug":"tabor-and-hermon-rejoice-in-your-name-psalm-8912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/tabor-and-hermon-rejoice-in-your-name-psalm-8912\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name\u201d (Psalm 89:12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cT<\/strong>abor and\u00a0Hermon rejoice in Your name\u201d (Psalm 89:12)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accord, the prophet King David pronouncement about the great feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ on his psalm \u201cTabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name\u201d on August 19, the festivity of our Lord Jesus Christ and how His appearance was changed on Mount Tabor, is commemorated.<\/p>\n

As written in the Holy Scripture, when there were with Him three of His disciples, that is to say, Peter, and James, and John.\u00a0 Our Lord said, \u201cThere stand here those who shall not taste death until they see the Son of God and of man coming in His glory.\u201d This is the glory wherein the Apostles saw Him.\u00a0 His apparel was white as snow, and His countenance was changed and became like lightning, emitting light.<\/p>\n

Behold Moses and Elias came to Him, and they talked with Him that all men might know that He was the God of Moses, whom He had raised from the dead, and the God of Elias, whom He had brought down from heaven (sic). \u00a0Because of this, Peter said unto our Lord, \u201cDost Thou wish, O Lord, that we should make here three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias?\u201d \u00a0In these words, which Peter spoke, there is a sign of lowliness and humility. \u00a0He saw our Lord, and thought that He would live on the mountain . . . and he wished to make for Him a place where He could hide from the sun. \u00a0Peter did not wish for himself, and for his fellow-apostles, as he wished for our Lord, and for Moses, and for Elias; but he made himself and his fellow-apostles like slaves of those lords.\u00a0 And marvel not at the little knowledge of the apostles, for they were not perfect in knowledge at that time.\u00a0 When Peter said this, a cloud overshadowed them, so as to make it clear to Peter that He did not want a habitation made by the hand of man.\u00a0 And a voice came forth from the cloud which confirmed the belief in the Godhead of our Lord in the minds of the apostles, saying, \u201cThis is My Son, Whom I love, in Whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, Moses and Elias talked with Him, and they confessed His grace and His goodness, for by the coming of our Lord and by His going up upon the mountain [the truth] of the prophecy of the prophets was made known of a certainty. \u00a0And the apostles and the prophets rejoiced, for they saw His Incarnation which they had known not of, and the apostles rejoiced also when they heard the voice of the Father, which they had never before heard. \u00a0They heard it at that time, and by the voice of the Father they became certain of the Incarnation of our God the Son, which was hidden from them; and when they heard the voice of the Father the glory of the kingdom appeared, and the apostles knew that it was our Lord Jesus Christ Who had raised up the soul of Moses, and that it was He Who had brought up Elias, for verily none save God Who buried him knew where the grave of Moses was, and none save He Who had brought him up to heaven knew where Elias was. And none was able to make the dead to live save Almighty God, Who hath dominion over the heavens and the earth.<\/p>\n

Mount Tabor is a similitude of the Church, and our Lord gathered together therein the Two Laws, the New and the Old.\u00a0 When the disciples heard the voice of the Father, they fell down and became like dead men; and Moses returned to his grave, and Elias went up to heaven. Our Lord Jesus Christ stood alone, for the voice came because of Him, and the prophets were frightened and the apostles fell down upon their faces, for the Father revealed the Name of His son, and that He existed for ever with His Father. \u00a0Because of that voice the Apostles preached that He was God indeed, and also that the flesh (or, body), which He had put on, was of the race of the children of man. \u00a0And in the Gospel our Redeemer preached saying . . .. If He was not flesh, why did the angel Gabriel say unto Mary, \u201cGod be with thee!\u201d\u00a0 And if He was not flesh, Whom did they lay in the manger? \u00a0And if He was not God, Whom did the angels praise when He went down from heaven on the day of His birth, saying, \u201cGlory to God in the heights, and peace on earth, His goodwill to man.\u201d \u00a0If He was not flesh, Whom did John baptize in the Jordan? \u00a0And if He was not God, Who was it that raised up Lazarus from his grave? \u00a0It was Christ, the Only Son, the Word of God. \u00a0We confess that He is perfect God and perfect man, One Person without separation.<\/p>\n

When the apostles fell down upon the earth, and became like dead men, our Lord touched them with His Life- giving\u00a0 hand,\u00a0 and\u00a0 He\u00a0 said\u00a0 unto\u00a0 them,\u00a0 \u201cRise\u00a0 up,\u00a0 and\u00a0 fear\u00a0 not.\u201d\u00a0 They then rose\u00a0 up straightway, and they lifted up their eyes and saw no one except our Lord Jesus Christ, Who was alone.<\/p>\n

Salutation to Debre Tabor, which is called Debre Telul and Glory to God; Amen!<\/p>\n

Source: Ethiopic Syanaxarium page 694-695 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accord, the prophet King David pronouncement about the great feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ on his psalm \u201cTabor and\u00a0Hermon rejoice in Your name\u201d on August 19, the festivity of our Lord Jesus Christ and how His appearance was changed on Mount Tabor, is commemorated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts","category-holy-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}