aid it upon the altar. The act
thus foreshadowed in the type was accomplished when our great High
Priest passed into the heavens, and "entered not into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figure of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us."[144]

The Ascension took place in open day and in the sight of the Apostles.
"While they beheld, he was taken up."[145] That they might be witnesses
of the fact, it was necessary that they should see Him go up from earth.
Unlike the Ascension, the Resurrection of Christ took place unseen by
mortal eye. Eye-witnesses of His rising from the dead were not needed.
The fact that they had seen Jesus after He rose qualified them to be
witnesses of His Resurrection, but it was only because they had seen Him
taken up that they could bear personal testimony to His Ascension.

Thus our Lord "ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of
God the Father Almighty." This Article expresses the honour and dignity
of His Person and character. To sit on the right hand is an honour
reserved for the most favoured.[146] When the Scriptures speak of the
right hand of God, it is meant that, as the right hand among men is the
place of honour, power, and happiness, so to sit on the right hand of
God is to obtain the place of highest glory, power, and satisfaction.

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,