That after He had risen again He should receive from His Father all power, and His power should be everlasting. - ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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That after He had risen again He should receive from His Father all power, and His power should be everlasting.
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26. That after He had risen again He should receive from His Father all power, and His power should be everlasting.

In Daniel: “I saw in a vision by night, and behold as it were the Son of man, coming in the clouds of heaven, came even to the Ancient of days, and stood in His sight. And they who stood beside Him brought Him before Him: and to Him was given a royal power, and all the kings of the earth by their generation, and all glory obeying Him: and His power is eternal, which shall not be taken away, and His kingdom shall not be destroyed.”⁴⁰⁹⁶

⁴⁰⁹⁶ Dan. vii. 13, 14.
Also in Isaiah: “Now will I arise, saith the Lord; now will I be glorified, now will I be exalted, now ye shall see, now ye shall understand, now ye shall be confounded. Vain will be the strength of your spirit: the fire shall consume you.”⁴⁰⁹⁷

⁴⁰⁹⁷ Isa. xxxiii. 10, 11.
Also in the cixth Psalm: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies the footstool of Thy feet. God will send the rod of Thy power out of Sion, and Thou shalt rule in the midst of Thine enemies.”⁴⁰⁹⁸

⁴⁰⁹⁸ Ps. cx. 1, 2.
Also in the Apocalypse: “And I turned and looked to see the voice which spake with me. And I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a long garment,⁴⁰⁹⁹

⁴⁰⁹⁹ “Podere.”
and He was girt about the paps with a golden girdle. And His head and His hairs were white as wool or snow, and His eyes as a flame of fire, and His feet like to fine brass from a furnace of fire, and His voice like the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and His face shone as the sun in his might. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, and said, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and He that liveth and was dead; and, lo, I am living for evermore⁴¹⁰⁰

⁴¹⁰⁰ One codex reads here, “living in the assembly of the saints.”
and I have the keys of death and of hell.”⁴¹⁰¹

⁴¹⁰¹ Rev. i. 12–18.
Likewise in the Gospel, the Lord after His resurrection says to His disciples: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.”⁴¹⁰²

⁴¹⁰² Matt. xxviii. 18–20.
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