180. It is written, thou sayest, that “when
we were dead in sins, He hath quickened us
in Christ, by Whose grace ye are saved,
and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus.” Eph. ii. 5, 6. I
acknowledge that it is so written; but it is not written that God
suffers men to sit on His right hand, but only to sit there in the
Person of Christ. For He is the foundation of all, and is the
head of the Church, Eph. v. 23. in Whom our
common nature according to the flesh has merited the right to the
heavenly throne. For the flesh is honoured as having a share in
Christ Who is God, and the nature of the whole human race is honoured
as having a share in the flesh.