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.
”
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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.”
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And it
was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our
sins
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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 prepared
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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,”
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since He formerly became conformed to
“the body of our humiliation,”
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when He “emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a
servant,”
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He is restored to
the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.
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Matt. xvi. 27
.
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Isa. liii. 2, 3
.
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Isa. liii. 4
.
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Reading
προευτρεπισός
as the Vetus Inter.
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Rom. viii. 29
.
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Phil. iii. 21
.
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Phil. ii. 7
.