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The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

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cannot be on earth, because it sitteth at "God's right h<strong>and</strong>," neither can His<br />

"divine" nature be present, for the same reason; for Christ sits at the right<br />

h<strong>and</strong> of God in His whole person, <strong>and</strong> according to both natures. If to sit at<br />

God's right h<strong>and</strong> involves the limitations of locality, then the divine nature<br />

of Christ cannot be there. But to sit at the right h<strong>and</strong> of God has no<br />

reference whatever to locality. To sit at the right h<strong>and</strong> of a king is a Biblical<br />

idiom for participation in the office, prerogatives, <strong>and</strong> honor of a king. "To<br />

sit at the right h<strong>and</strong> of God" means, therefore, "to be in that condition of<br />

plenary divine glory, majesty, <strong>and</strong> dominion which belongs to God." We<br />

invert the argument, therefore: we say, Christ is at the right h<strong>and</strong> of God,<br />

therefore He is here. God is not mutilated nor divided; He is without parts<br />

(impartibilis, Aug. Conf., Art. I.). Where-ever God is, His right h<strong>and</strong> is;<br />

wherever His "right h<strong>and</strong>" is, He is; therefore the "right h<strong>and</strong> of God," so<br />

far as the question of presence is involved, is everywhere. His throne is as<br />

wide as the Universe <strong>The</strong> "hollow of His h<strong>and</strong>" holds creation! He who<br />

sits at God's right h<strong>and</strong> is omnipresent, just as he who is sitting at the right<br />

h<strong>and</strong> of an earthly monarch is "ipso facto" where that monarch is. When<br />

Jesus rose from the dead, He said, "All power is given unto me in heaven<br />

<strong>and</strong> on earth;" but the power of "presence" is a primary part, a necessary<br />

element of all power or omnipotence; that is, omnipresence <strong>and</strong><br />

omnipotence so cohere that no being can have one of them without having<br />

both; <strong>and</strong> as Jesus says this power is given to Him, it must have been given<br />

to Him as man, for, as God, He held it essentially <strong>and</strong> necessarily. Jesus<br />

Christ our adorable Lord is not only essentially omnipotent <strong>and</strong> essentially<br />

omnipresent as God, but is personally omnipotent <strong>and</strong> personally<br />

omnipresent in that human nature also which has, been taken into absolute<br />

<strong>and</strong> inseparable unity with the divine. All objections vanish in the light of<br />

His glorious <strong>and</strong> all-sufficient person. That the true <strong>and</strong> supernatural<br />

communion with his Lord in His "Supper"--which is the Christian's hope-<br />

-can be, rests upon the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in Christ bodily;<br />

that it will be, rests upon the

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