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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew, Origen's Commentary on Matthew, Book XII
by Origen, translated by John Patrick
Chapter 29
161537Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew, Origen's Commentary on Matthew, Book XII — Chapter 29John PatrickOrigen

29.  The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His own Father with His angels.[1]  Now, indeed, the Son of man has not come in His glory; “for we saw Him, and He had no form nor beauty; but His form was dishonoured and defective compared with the sons of men; He was a man in affliction and toil, and acquainted with the enduring of sickness, because His face was turned away, He was dishonoured and not esteemed.”[2]  And it was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our sins[3] and suffer pain for us; for it did not become Him in glory to bear our sins and suffer pain for us.  But He also comes in glory, having prepared[4] the disciples through that epiphany of His which has no form nor beauty; and, having become as they that they might become as He, “conformed to the image of His glory,”[5] since He formerly became conformed to “the body of our humiliation,”[6] when He “emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant,”[7] He is restored to the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.


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  1. Matt. xvi. 27.
  2. Isa. liii. 2, 3.
  3. Isa. liii. 4.
  4. Reading προευτρεπισός as the Vetus Inter.
  5. Rom. viii. 29.
  6. Phil. iii. 21.
  7. Phil. ii. 7.