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No. On the contrary, He has promised that He will be with us to the end (Matt. 28:20).
79. Is it in bodily presence that He remains with us? No, for it is one thing to speak of His body which was taken up into heaven, and another to speak of His power, which is spread abroad everywhere (Luke 24:51; Acts 2:33).
80. How do you understand that He "sitteth on the right hand of the Father? It means that He has received the dominion of heaven and earth, so that He reigns and rules over all (Matt. 28:18).
81. But what is meant by "right hand", and by "sitteth"? It is a similitude taken from earthly princes, who are wont to place on their right hand those whom they make their lieutenants to govern in their name.
82. You do not mean anything more then than Paul when he says that Christ had been appointed Head of the Church, and raised above all principality, has secured a Name which is above every name (Eph. 1:22; 4:15; Phil. 2:9). That is so.
83. Continue. "From thence He will come to judge the quick and the dead." That is to say, He will appear again from heaven in judgment, as He was seen to ascend (Acts 1:11).
84. As the judgment is not to be before the end of the world, how do you say that some men will then be alive, and thus will be dead, seeing it is appointed to al men once to die? (Heb. 9:27, 28). Paul answers this question when he says, that those who then survive will suddenly be changed so that their corruption will be abolished, and their bodies will put on incorruption (1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:17).
85. You understand then that this change will be for them like a death, for it will abolish their first nature, and raise them up in a new state. That is it.