They have some clues, though, about what they see. They understand what they are experiencing through the symbols of their religion. The idea of Messiah is not big enough, the idea of God s abundance is not big enough. This is all even bigger. The Christ of God is beyond their symbols.
Silence is really the only possible response.
They are standing in the presence of the Holy, and none of their old ideas work very well to explain it. And they are transformed. Let me suggest that we don t need to go to the mountain top to be transformed. We can stand in the presence of the Holy in our daily life and work. We stand in the presence of the Holy when we pray together here in church, and when we share together in the bread and the wine.