Mark 9:3

3 et apparuit illis Helias cum Mose et erant loquentes cum Iesu

Mark 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 9:3

And his raiment became shining
With the rays of glory and brightness which darted from his body through his clothes, and made them as bright as the light of the sun at noon day: and

exceeding white as snow;
than which nothing is whiter;

so as no fuller on earth can white them.
The Syriac version renders it, "as men cannot white on earth"; and the Persic thus, "so as men could not behold him". Just as the Israelites could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance, when he came down from the mount; (See Gill on Matthew 17:2).

Mark 9:3 In-Context

1 et post dies sex adsumit Iesus Petrum et Iacobum et Iohannem et ducit illos in montem excelsum seorsum solos et transfiguratus est coram ipsis

2 et vestimenta eius facta sunt splendentia candida nimis velut nix qualia fullo super terram non potest candida facere

3 et apparuit illis Helias cum Mose et erant loquentes cum Iesu

4 et respondens Petrus ait Iesu rabbi bonum est hic nos esse et faciamus tria tabernacula tibi unum et Mosi unum et Heliae unum

5 non enim sciebat quid diceret erant enim timore exterriti