At God's right hand our Lord entered into everlasting and perfect glory
and dominion. Being one with the Father, all that is the Father's is
His. He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, having an eternal life and
all the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in Him bodily. The Father
Himself gave Him the place at His right hand, having highly exalted Him
and given Him a name which is above every name. None can dethrone Him or
successfully plot against His kingdom. No weapon, carnal or spiritual,
can ever prevail against Him. It is this that gives to Christianity its
stability and power, for Christianity is Christ Himself sitting at the
right hand of God. The ascended Christ exercises absolute authority and
unlimited dominion. The Father on whose right hand the Son sits is, in
this clause, as in that which stands at the beginning of the Creed,
termed the "Father Almighty." Though the distinction is not apparent in
the English version of the Creed, "Almighty" in the original Greek is in
these clauses expressed by two different words. In the earlier clause,
the word so rendered signifies God's supreme, universal dominion, while
here the word employed denotes the fact that His power and operation are
always efficacious and irresistible, and that all things are under His
absolute control. This word "Almighty" warrants the belief which the
clause declares, that the Son, sitting on the right hand of the Father,
possesses absolute and universal power, and that in executing His office
as Mediator none can resist or oppose Him.
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