Athanasian Creed (Worcester) n. 173

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173. The Coming of the Lord is revealed, in the end of the church. At the end of the Jewish church, the Lord Himself came into the flesh, and He then revealed Himself as being God or Jehovah who was to come, as told in the Prophets, and still further, that He it is who rules heaven with the earth, and who is the one only God. This, in the Gospels (Matt. 24), is also called His Coming. Hitherto, however, He has been almost neglected, because in thought and in idea He has been like a common man; in regard to whom there has been almost no thought of anything Divine, for the reason that men have in their idea placed the Divine outside of Him and not within Him, as nevertheless He teaches that it is; and by the Divine outside of Him, most have understood the Father, and thus another person; so that the Lord has been almost neglected in the world, at the end. Consequently His new and second Coming is made.


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