So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
By which words He seems to she clearly enough that the foregoing discourse was the last that He spake to them upon earth, though it does not appear to bind us down altogether to this opinion. For He does not say, After He had thus spoken unto them, wherefore it admits of being understood not as if that was the last discourse, but that the words which are here used, “After the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received into heaven,” might belong to all His other discourses. But since the arguments which we have used above make us rather suppose that this was the last time, therefore we ought to believe that after these words, together with those which are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, our Lord ascended into heaven.
de Symbolic, 7: Let us not therefore understand this sitting as though He were placed there in human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left, the Son on the right, but by the righthand itself we understand the power which He as man received from God, that He should come to judge, who first had come to be judged. For by sitting we express habitation, as we say of a person, he sat himself down in that country for many years; in this way then believe that Christ dwells at the right handof God the Father. For He is blessed and dwells in blessedness, which is called the right hand of the Father; for all is right hand there, since there is nomisery.It goes on: “And they went forth and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs and wonders.”
