Mark 9:2

And after six days Jesus took with him Peter, and James, and John, and led them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
Leaving out of their calculation the day on which Jesus spoke these words, and the day on which he exhibited that memorable spectacle on the mount, they have regarded simply the intermediate days, and have used the expression, “after six days.” But Luke, reckoning in the extreme day at either end, that is to say, the first day and the last day, has made it “after eight days,” in accordance with that mode of speech in which the part is put for the whole.

Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235
That in the similitude of an image He appeared who after the six days Himself ascended the mountain a fourth person, and became the sixth.

Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202
He asserts that the fruit of this arrangement and analogy has been manifested in the likeness of an image, namely, Him who, after six days, ascended

John Chrysostom

AD 407
He disclosed, it is said, a glimpse of the Godhead. He manifested to them the God who was dwelling among them. Eutropius, and the Vanity of Riches, Homily

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
While, in the revelation of His own glory, He prefers, from among so many saints and prophets, to have with him Moses and Elias

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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