<p>1:18 <i>And this voice we heard, delivered out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy mount</i>- Peter is struggling in words to explain how the voice heard was from Heaven, not from earth, and was the actual voice of God, written down by him in words. That same sense of wonder is to be found in fact in every word of the Bible- it is all in some sense God's word. Hence the Greek suggests &quot;There came <i>such</i>&nbsp;a voice to (Christ) from the excellent glory... and this voice which came from heaven <i>we</i>&nbsp;heard... we have also a <i>more sure word</i>&nbsp;of prophecy, whereunto <i>ye</i>&nbsp;do well that <i>ye</i>&nbsp;take heed&quot; (2 Pet. 1:18,19). Notice the progression in his reasoning here. Peter considered it such an honour that he could hear the words which God primarily intended for Christ. And even more wondrous, the word of prophecy which we have all heard is an even <i>more</i>&nbsp;wondrous revelation of God's glory than the word of God which came at the transfiguration. Yet do we even begin to reach that sense of wonder which Peter had on the mount? That sense of rapture, of real spiritual transport, of reaching out of earthly things into Heavenly, that desire for the experience never to end, even though we realize that we only understand a fraction of the infinity which is revealed by God's word? &nbsp;</p>