|  | Listen to the words of the Apostle: If you have risen with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are above where Christ is |
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| | he still suffers on earth all the pain that we, the members of his body, have to bear. He showed this when he cried out from above:Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? |
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| | We cannot be in heaven, as he is on earth, by divinity, but in him, we can be there by love. |
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| | He did not leave heaven when he came down to us; nor did he withdraw from us when he went up again into heaven. The fact that he was in heaven even while he was on earth is borne out by his own statement: No one has ever ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. |
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| | No one ascended into heaven except Christ because we also are Christ: he is the Son of Man by his union with us, and we by our union with him are the sons of God. |
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| | although he ascended alone, we also ascend, because we are in him by grace. |
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| | no one but Christ descended and no one but Christ ascended; not because there is no distinction between the head and the body, but because the body as a unity cannot be separated from the head. |
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