Judgment is for Paul a function of
the universal lordship of Christ, which He attained through death and resurrection, and His second advent as Judge is a part of the kerygma — as Judge, but also as Saviour, for in i Thess.
But the Christian sees in
it a universal lordship.
But the Christian sees in
it the universal lordship of God, of the God who is the Father, who is the Father to him, his Father....
Not exact matches
Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the
universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to
Lordship over all the world.