25.  For when they speak against the ascension of the Saviour, as being impossible, remember the account of the carrying away of Habakkuk:  for if Habakkuk was transported by an Angel, being carried by the hair of his head Bel and the Dragon, v. 33:  Compare Ezek. viii. 3., much rather was the Lord of both Prophets and Angels, able by His own power to make His ascent into the Heavens on a cloud from the Mount of Olives.  Wonders like this thou mayest call to mind, but reserve the preeminence for the Lord, the Worker of wonders; for the others were borne up, but He bears up all things.  Remember that Enoch was translated Heb. xi. 5.; but Jesus ascended:  remember what was said yesterday concerning Elias, that Elias was taken up in a chariot of fire 2 Kings ii. 11.; but that the chariots of Christ are ten thousand-fold even thousands upon thousands Ps. lxviii. 17:  χιλιάδες εὐθηνούντων.  The Hebrew means literally “thousands of repetition,” i.e. many thousands:  εὐθηνεῖν, “to abound.”:  and that Elias was taken up, towards the east of Jordan; but that Christ ascended at the east of the brook Cedron:  and that Elias went as into heaven Sept. ὡς εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν.  In 1 Macc. ii. 58 the mss. vary between ἕως and ὡς, but the latter (says Fritzsche) “is an alteration made to agree with 2 Kings ii. 11.  But there the reference is to the intended exaltation of Elijah into heaven, and therefore ὡς is rightly used (Kühner, Gramm. § 604, note; Jelf, § 626, Obs. 1), while here the thing is referred to as an accomplished historical fact.”  The distinction here drawn by Cyril is therefore hypercritical, as is seen below in § 26, where he writes, ᾽Ηλίας μὲν γὰρ ἀνελήφθη εἰς οὐρανόν.; but Jesus, into heaven:  and that Elias said that a double portion in the Holy Spirit should be given to his holy disciple; but that Christ granted to His own disciples so great enjoyment of the grace of the Holy Ghost, as not only to have It in themselves, but also, by the laying on of their hands, to impart the fellowship of It to them who believed.