And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
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Bede
AD 735
White garments are more appropriate to exaltation than to humiliation. The place also was appropriate, for he who was born as a man in a humble little town returned to Heaven from a high mountain.
Among the disciples, and the hope of the advent of the Lord indirectly pointed to, in that, at 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; "
