Pointing to it and its significance, he wrote: “No, it was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted you with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become eyewitnesses of his magnificence.
وی با اشاره به رؤیا و مفهوم آن نوشت :‏ « در پی افسانه‌های جعلی نرفتیم ،‏ چون از قوّت و آمدن خداوند ما عیسی مسیح شما را اعلام دادیم ،‏ بلکه کبریایی او را دیده بودیم .‏