And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
To ascend into heaven is clearly an attribute of Christ as man, who in their sight was taken. That cloud afforded no support as a vehicle to the ascending Christ: but it appeared as a sign of the Godhead, just as God's glory appeared to Israel in a cloud over the Tabernacle (Ex. 40:32; Num. 9:15).
