Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Now to Him, he says, who is able to keep you without stumbling, and present you faultless before the presence of His glory in joy. In the presence of His glory: he means in the presence of the angels, to be presented faultless, having become angels. When Daniel speaks of the people and comes into the presence of the Lord, he does not say this, because he saw God: for it is impossible that any one whose heart is not pure should see God; but he says this, that everything that the people did was in the sight of God, and was manifest to Him; that is, that nothing is hid from the Lord.
Now, in the Gospel according to Mark (14:62), the Lord being interrogated by the chief of the priests if He was the Christ, the Son of the blessed God, answering, said, I am; and you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power. But powers mean the holy angels. Further, when He says at the right hand of God, He means the self-same [beings], by reason of the equality and likeness of the angelic and holy powers, which are called by the name of God. He says, therefore, that He sits at the right hand; that is, that He rests in pre-eminent honour. In the other Gospels, however, He is said not to have replied to the high priest, on his asking if He was the Son of God. But what said He? You say. Answering sufficiently well. For had He said, It is as you understand, he would have said what was not true, not confessing Himself to be the Son of God; [for] they did not entertain this opinion of Him; but by saying You say, He spoke truly. For what they had no knowledge of, but expressed in words, that he confessed to be true.
