God the Father also testified to the Son at the Transfiguration

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III





God the Father also testified to the Son at the Transfiguration. The Father testified to the Son at that moment which declared His Divinity in front of His three disciples when "His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses... And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!"' (Mk. 9:2-7). If Christ were an ordinary Son, why would He need a testimony from the Father? And why was there need for all the glory of the Transfiguration; the light and the cloud? And why was there need for the voice of the Father? In addition to this, the phrase
'Hear Him' commands us also to submit to Him. If everyone were a Son of God, to whom did the Father testify with the same glory as that of Christ's baptism and transfiguration?