8. Enoch had been translated, Elias caught
up, but the servant is not above his Master. For “No man
hath ascended into heaven, but He Who came down from
heaven;” S. John iii. 13. and even of
Moses, though his corpse was never seen on earth, we do nowhere read as
of one abiding in celestial glory, unless it was after that the Lord,
by the earnest of His own Resurrection, burst the bonds of hell and
exalted the souls of the godly. Enoch, then, was translated, and
Elias caught up; both as servants, both in the body, but not after
resurrection from the dead, nor with the spoils of death and the
triumphal train of the Cross, had they been seen of angels.