Acts 1:11 (WEB)
who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
Catechism · 1
“They will be present at Christ's return, which they will announce, to serve at his judgement.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 1:10-11; Mt 13:41; 24:31; Lk 12:8-9. the angels in the life of the Church
Fathers and councils · 28
Augustine of Hippo
“For He shall yet come, even so as He has ascended, according to the authority which is contained in the Acts of the Apostles.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11
Read the whole comment“Angels preached the ascension of the Lord: they saw the Disciples, their Lord ascending, tarrying, admiring, confounded, nothing speaking, but in heart jubilant: and now was the sound of the trumpet in the clear voice of the Angels, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? this is Jesus.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“And forasmuch as from thence He is to come, to judge quick and dead, observe what followeth: “behold, He shall give His voice, the voice of power.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“For He will appear as Man judging, but in glory: because “as ye saw Him go,” said the Angels, “so He will come.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“What is, “shall come in like manner”?” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“This same that is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him going into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 3–11.
Read the whole comment“…were beholding Him ascending, the angelic voice sounded in the ears of His disciples, “So shall He come in like manner as ye have seen Him going into heaven;” that is, in the form of man in which He was judged, will He judge, in order that also that prophetic utterance may be fulfilled, “They shall look upon Him whom…” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“For angel lips have declared in the Gospel, “He shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“But since it was declared on the testimony of angels, “He shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven;” and our faith stands to this, that He will come in the same body to judge the living and the dead; there can be no doubt that He will then be seen by the…” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“For a cloud received Him when He ascended up from their side; and of His going into heaven they made no verbal inquiry, but had ocular evidence.” — editor's note: Acts i. 9–11.
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Tertullian
“He will come again on the clouds of heaven, just as He appeared when He ascended into heaven.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11; Luke xxi. 37.
Read the whole comment“…that time, when He had been received back into the heavens, the angels told the apostles that “He would so come, as He had withal ascended into the heavens;” at Pentecost, of course.” — editor's note: Acts i. 10, 11; but it is οὐρανόν throughout in the Greek.
Read the whole comment“Happily, however, He who suffered “will come again from heaven,” and by all shall He be seen, who rose again from the dead.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment of the two angels?” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
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John Damascene
“For He shall so come again to you, saith he, in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“…Heaven He was borne towards the East, and thus His apostles worship Him, and thus He will come again in the way in which they beheld Him going towards Heaven; as the Lord Himself said, As the lightning cometh out of the East and shinetheven unto the West, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“And the Lord shall come out of heaven, just as the holy apostles beheld Him going into heaven, perfect God and perfect man, with glory and power, and will destroy the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, with the breath of His mouth.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Mark
“For since it was said by the Angels to the Apostles, “He shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven,” [Acts 1:11] rightly do we believe that He will come not only in the same body, but on a cloud, since He is to come as He went away, and a cloud received Him as He was going.” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…in that He hath raised Him from the dead,” and I have learnt from the holy Angels that He will come in like manner as the disciples saw Him going into heaven.” — editor's note: Acts i. 11
Read the whole comment- Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.2Demonstrations by Syllogisms
“For that body is visible, and of this the angel spoke to the Apostles “This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11
Read the whole comment “With this glory He was taken up; with this the angels said that He should come; for their words were “He who was taken from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11
Read the whole comment“But now, as I have already said, even His human nature is immortal; and, as He ascended, so again shall He come according to the words of the Angel—“This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Why, the blessed Stephen saw in the heavens the Lord standing on [God’s] right hand, while the Angels said to the disciples, ‘He shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him going into heaven:’ and the Lord Himself says, addressing the Father, ‘I will that where I am, they also may be with Me.’” — editor's note: Ib. i. 11.
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John Chrysostom
“…to Mary, or to Joseph; when they sit at the sepulcher, when they are sent to say to the disciples, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?” ( Acts i. 11 ), when they release Peter out of the prison, when they discourse with Philip, consider how great the honor is; when God sends His Angels for…” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“I will return to Jerusalem and, passing through Tekoa the home of Amos, I will look upon the glistening cross of Mount Olivet from which the Saviour made His ascension to the Father.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 50, 51; Acts i. 9–12.
Read the whole comment“Then shall be fulfilled the prophecy of the angels, who said to the stupefied Apostles, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking with astonishment into heaven?” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
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Leo the Great
“…“ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven? this Jesus, Who was taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as ye saw Him going into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
Read the whole comment“This Jesus Who was taken up from you into heaven shall so come as ye saw Him going into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 11.
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