The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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29. The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His own Father with His angels.”⁵⁷³⁷

⁵⁷³⁷ Matt. xvi. 27.
Now, indeed, the Son of man has not come in His glory; “for we saw Him, and He had no form nor beauty; but His form was dishonoured and defective compared with the sons of men; He was a man in affliction and toil, and acquainted with the enduring of sickness, because His face was turned away, He was dishonoured and not esteemed.”⁵⁷³⁸

⁵⁷³⁸ Isa. liii. 2, 3.
And it was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our sins⁵⁷³⁹

⁵⁷³⁹ Isa. liii. 4.
and suffer pain for us; for it did not become Him in glory to bear our sins and suffer pain for us. But He also comes in glory, having prepared⁵⁷⁴⁰

⁵⁷⁴⁰ Reading προευτρεπισός as the Vetus Inter.
the disciples through that epiphany of His which has no form nor beauty; and, having become as they that they might become as He, “conformed to the image of His glory,”⁵⁷⁴¹

⁵⁷⁴¹ Rom. viii. 29.
since He formerly became conformed to “the body of our humiliation,”⁵⁷⁴²

⁵⁷⁴² Phil. iii. 21.
when He “emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant,”⁵⁷⁴³

⁵⁷⁴³ Phil. ii. 7.
He is restored to the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.
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