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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Whenever sitting and a throne are spoken of God, His kingly and supreme majesty is signified. For we do not imagine any judgment-seat to be placed, on which we believe the Lord of all takes His seat; nor again, that in any wise right hand or left hand appertain to the Divine nature; for figure, and place, and sitting, are the properties of bodies. But how shall the Son be seen to be of equal honour and to sit together on the same throne, if He is not the Son according to nature, having in Himself the natural property of the Father?
Theophylact of Ohrid
You will see Me, the Son of Man, sitting "at the right hand of the power of God."
Western Saints
Bede
From this, the Son of Man will be sitting at the right hand of the power of God. Therefore, if in Christ, O Jew, pagan, and heretic, contempt, weakness, and the cross are an insult, see that through these the Son of Man will sit at the right hand of God the Father, and being born as a human from the virgin's birth, he will come in his majesty with the clouds of heaven. …
Bonaventure
Lest, however, he should seem to seek evasion, he answers with the truth, when he adds: But from henceforth the Son of man shall be sitting at the right hand of the power of God: from henceforth, that is, after this passion, according to that passage in Philippians 2: "He humbled himself: wherefore God also exalted him," etc. …
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