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We read in the fifth chapter of Genesis that Enoch pleased God, and was translated into Paradise. Enoch, who pleased God, is a type of Christ, who pleased the Father on high, and was therefore thought worthy to ascend to the heavenly Paradise --that is, heaven--for, in the day of His ascension, He exalted Him above all the choirs of angels. |
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We read in the second book of Kings, second chapter, that when Elijah the prophet was raised into heaven in a fiery chariot, Elisha cried out, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Elijah is a type of Christ, whom His apostles, typified by Elisha, saw ascending into heaven, and wondered when Christ said unto them, "I go unto My Father." | ||||||
Ps. xlvii.5 | God is gone up with a shout: the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. | Isa. lxiii.1 | Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? | |||||
Image: Enoch taken to Paradise |
Image: Ascension
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Image: Elias taken up in fiery Chariot | ||||||
Enoch, translated, is joined to the company of heaven. | Elias was translated into heaven, carried through the air. | |||||||
Deut. xxxii. 11 | As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young. | Micah ii. 13 | For he shall go up that shall open the way before them | |||||
Saint of saints: Christ seeks the stars of heaven.
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