ACC ~ Revelation 1 v7

CHRIST WILL RETURN IN THE FLESH. FULGENTIUS OF RUSPE: Hold most firmly and never doubt that the Word made flesh always has the same truly human flesh with which God the Word was born of the Virgin, with which he was crucified and died, with which he rose and ascended to heaven and sits at the right hand of God, with which he will come again to judge the living and the dead. For this reason, the apostles heard from the angels, “He … will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven,” and the blessed John says, “Behold, he will come amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth will see him.” LETTER TO PETER ON THE FAITH 20.63.

THE HOLY ANGELS WILL ACCOMPANY CHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS VISIBLY. OECUMENIUS: I think that the divine Scripture figuratively calls the holy angels “clouds” because of their lightness and sublimity and movement in the air, as though it were saying, “The Lord will come, being carried and attended by his holy angels.” And the prophet speaks of him in this way: “And he rode upon a cherub and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the wind.” And he writes, “every eye will see him, every one who pierced him.” At his second and glorious coming, he will not come as though he were hiding in a corner. Nor will he come secretly as he did in his previous coming, when he visited the world in the flesh. The prophet showed that this coming would be hidden, when he said, “He will come down as rain upon a fleece and as rain drops which fall upon the earth.” He will rather come openly and visibly, so that he will be seen by every eye, even by those who are especially sinful and impious. And of these, those who maltreated or pierced him must be regarded as a class of their own. “And all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him,” namely, those peoples who have remained in unbelief and have not come to bend their neck to his saving yoke. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 1.7.

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