Sentences with phrase «final exaltation»

But these appearances did not continue to occur (Paul says that the appearance to him was as to «One born out of due time») and by the end of the first century it was possible to think of them as having been confined to the short and definite period after the resurrection of which the final exaltation, or ascension, marked the end.

And his final exaltation was not the resumption of a temporarily surrendered Godhood — his renunciation had been complete and irrevocable.