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Job 9:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Here Christ dwells invisible to us at present; he is received up into heaven, retained there, and from thence will descend at the last day; and in the mean while is within the curtains of heaven, unseen by us.

"Pura in luce refulsit alma parens", Virgil. Aeneid. 2.

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