Or He comes every day “with great power” to the mind of the believer in the clouds of prophecy, that is, in the Scriptures of the Prophets and the Apostles, who utter the word of God with a meaning above human nature.
Also we say that to those who understand He comes with “great glory,” and that this is the more seen in the second coming of the Word which is to the perfect. And so it may be, that all which the three Evangelists have said concerning Christ’s coming, if carefully compared together and thoroughly examined, would be found to apply to His continual daily coming in His body, which is the Church, of which coming He said in another place, “Hereafter shall ye see the Son of Man. sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven,” [Matt 26:6] excepting those places in which He promises that His last coming in His own person.
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