Chapter
II
.—
Concerning the sitting at the right hand of
the Father.
We hold, moreover, that Christ sits in the body at
the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right
hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is
uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? Right hands
and left hands belong to what is circumscribed. But we understand
the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honour of the Godhead
in which the Son of God, who existed as God before the ages, and is of
like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in
the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His
flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation
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Athan. Jun.,
p. 45,
ad Ant.; Basil, De Spiritu Sancto
,
ch. 6.