The close of the Transfiguration used as the close of the whole drama. Moses and Elijah appear talking with him, Peter proposes three booths, and then the cloud passes and when the disciples lift their eyes there is no one left but Jesus - Moses and Elijah have vanished. Neville reads the vanishing as the point rather than as stage management: the law and the prophets are states, and states are worn out and left behind, while what remains at the end is the one name. At 1091 it is the last clause of an argument about the wheel: everyone moves on a wheel that is wearing out, the garment wears out and vanishes like smoke, and not one will fail, because God resurrects us one after the other and confers on that risen Christ the name Jesus - so that in the end they looked up and there was Jesus only. The phrase therefore carries his doctrine of the single identity: not that other figures were unreal, but that they were states, and at the end there is one being wearing the name. The attach lead reports the phrase in 29 lecture passages. It is coined from 1091, which is inside my own read.
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Matthew 17:8 | they looked up, and there was Jesus only
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LectureIs Christ Your Imagination
God resurrects us one after the other, lifted up, and confers on that risen Christ the name, the name Jesus. So you’re told, in the end, they looked up, and there was Jesus only.
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LectureJesus Only
When they looked up, Moses was there, Elijah was there, one personifying the law and one personifying the promise. And then came the awakening on the part of the disciples and then there was only Jesus, Jesus only.
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