Exegesis - Fullerton College

Perhaps the later was redaction effort to make the text more uniform with the parallel sentences in Mark 9:7 and Matt. 17:5. The participle ὁ ἐκλελεγμένος (“My Chosen One”) should be understood as a title rather than a descriptive phrase, probably deriving from Isa. 42:1 (in the LXX) which uses the similar ὁ ... ................
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