31. What that is must be understood in view
of this same hope of our faith. We cannot be ignorant that the
Lord Jesus Christ rose again from the dead, and sits at the right hand
of God, for we have also the witness of the Apostle, According to
the working of the strength of His might, which He wrought in Christ,
when He raised Him from the dead, and made Him to sit at His right hand
in the heavenly places above all rule and authority and power and
dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world but also
in that which is to came, and put all things in subjection under His
feet Eph. i. 19
b–22 a.. The
language of the Apostle, as befits the power of God, speaks of the
future as already past: for that which is to be wrought by the
completion of time already exists in Christ, in Whom is all fulness,
and ‘future’ refers only to the temporal order of the
Dispensation, not to a new development. Thus, God has put all
things under His feet, though they are still to be subjected. By
their subjection, conceived as already past, is expressed the immutable
power of Christ: by their subjection, as future, is signified
their consummation at the end of the ages as the result of the fulness
of time.