138. Receive thou also the Spirit of God,
that thou mayest discern those things, even as Stephen received the
Spirit; and thou mayest say, as the martyr said: “Behold, I
see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand
of God.” Acts vii. 55. He who
hath the heavens opened to him, seeth Jesus at the right hand of
God: he whose soul’s eye is closed, seeth not Jesus at the
right hand of God. Let us, then, confess Jesus at God’s
right hand, that to us also the heavens may be opened. They who
confess otherwise close the gates of heaven against
themselves.