Transfigured, Displaying the Archetypal Beauty

¹ 42. And in another hymn: And having hidden a little the assumed nature of the flesh, he was transfigured before them, displaying the comeliness of the archetypal beauty. And this not in its entirety, at once assuring them and sparing them, lest along with the sight they should lose even their life, but only as they were able to contain it, bearing it with their bodily eyes.