“Then, when we become incorruptible and immortal and attain the Christ-like [= likeness to Christ] and most blessed end, we shall always be with the Lord, as the divine Paul says (1 Thessalonians 4:17), being fulfilled in the visible Theophany through all-holy contemplations, while the most radiant flashes of light shine around us, as they did upon the Disciples in that most divine Transfiguration
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