17. What is Christ’s ascension? It is the consummation of all the divine works that Christ wrought here on earth in His human nature, and is the beginning of our blessedness. For through His ascension Christ began His reign, gave the apostles the Holy Spirit, and sent them out into all the world to preachContinue reading “Spangenberg on the Ascension”
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Sleep in the Natural and Spiritual Sense
Someone who sleeps in a natural sense does not see or perceive any of the things that are here on earth. He lies prostrate like a dead man, pays no attention to anything, all the while involved with utterly useless images and forms, dreams and visions, instead of real things. And when he wakes, theseContinue reading “Sleep in the Natural and Spiritual Sense”
Locus Communis 