Matthew 17:1-9 (The Message)South Presbyterian Church – March 16 2014The Reverend Deborah Fae Swift   As it says in your bulletin, the word “transfigure” means to transform into something more beautiful or elevated as in the statement:  “The world is made luminous and is transfigured.” Its synonyms include: transform, transmute, change, alter, metamorphos. I like metamorphos, myself … or the noun form that we are more used to hearing, metamorphosis. Meta- a prefix that can mean something beyond the original but at a more abstract level, like metaphilosophy or metalinguistics. morph Which is Greek for “shape,” and in this context can mean … Continue reading “transˈfigyәr / verb”