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| By the Sacrifice of Christ All Things are Restored, and Peace is Made Between Earth and Heaven.
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Chapter 62.—By the Sacrifice of Christ All Things are
Restored, and Peace is Made Between Earth and Heaven.
And, of course, the holy angels,
taught by God, in the eternal contemplation of whose truth their
happiness consists, know how great a number of the human race are
to supplement their ranks, and fill up the full tale of their
citizenship. Wherefore the apostle says, that “all things are
gathered together in one in Christ, both which are in heaven and
which are on earth.”1204
The things which are in heaven are
gathered together when what was lost therefrom in the fall of the
angels is restored from among men; and the things which are on
earth are gathered together, when those who are predestined to
eternal life are redeemed from their old corruption. And thus,
through that single sacrifice in which the Mediator was offered up,
the one sacrifice of which the many victims under the law were
types, heavenly things are brought into peace with earthly things,
and earthly things with heavenly. Wherefore, as the same apostle
says: “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness
dwell: and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by
Him to reconcile all things to Himself: by Him, I say, whether they
be things in earth, or things in heaven.”1205
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