Catena Aurea on Matthew 28:8–10: Augustine of Hippo

That the Lord, both by His own mouth, and by the Angel, directs them to seek for Him, not in that place in which He was to shew Himself first, but in Galilee, makes every believer anxious to understand in what mystery it is spoken. Galilee is interpreted ‘transmigration,’ or ‘revelation.’ [ed. note: According to the two different senses of the Hebrew root גלה, ‘migrating from a country,’ or ‘revealing,’ both coming from the primitive notion of ‘making bare.’]

And according to the first interpretation what meaning offers itself, save this, that the grace of Christ was to pass from the people of Israel to the Gentiles, who would not believe when the Apostles should preach the Gospel to them, unless the Lord Himself should first make ready their way in the hearts of men. This is the signification of that, “He shall go before you into Galilee. There shall ye see him,” means, there shall ye find His members, there shall ye perceive His living Body in such as shall receive you. According to the other interpretation, ‘revelation,’ it is to be understood, “ye shall see him” no longer in the form of a servant, but in that in which He is equal with the Father. That revelation will be the true Galilee, when “we shall be like him, and shall see him as he is.” [John 3:2] That will be the blessed passing from this world to that eternity.