The Ascension: its Diffusive Benefits
Acts 1:9-12
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.…


So long as a lamp in a room is placed on a low level its light may be intercepted by the bodies of persons around it, and so prevented from reaching others who are in the remoter corners. But let it be lifted up to the ceiling, and it sheds its beams down on all who are below. Our Lord, while on earth, was circumscribed by place and earthly relationships; but since His ascension, His presence and influence are diffused everywhere through the spiritual world, as the rays of the sun are through the natural.

(Dean Goulburn.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

WEB: When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.




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