Ascending And Sitting

Ascendit ad Caeos, sedet ad dextram Patris... Sedere quoque ad dexteram Patris, carnis assumtae mysterium est. Neque enim incorporeae illi naturae convenienter ista absque assumtione carnis aptantur: neque sedis caelestis perfectio divinae naturae, sed humanae conquiritur. Unde et dicitur de eo: Parata est sedes tua, Deus, ex tunc, a saeculo tu es. Parata igitur a saeculo sedes est, in qua Dominus Jesus sessurus erat: in cujus nomine omne genu flectatur, caelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum, et omnis lingua confiteatur, ei, quia Dominus Jesus est in gloria Dei Patris. De quo et David ita refert: Dixit Dominus Domino meo, sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum. Quae tamen dicta Dominus in Evangelio disserens, dicebat ad Pharisaeos: Si ergo David in spiritu Dominum vocat eum, quomodo Filius ejus est? Per quod ostendit se secundum spiritum Dominum, secundum carnem filium esse David. Unde et ipse Dominus iterum dicit: Verumtamen dico vobis, Amodo videbitis filium hominis sedentem ad dexteram virtutis Dei. Et Petrus Apostolus dicit de Christo, Qui est in dextera Dei sedens in caelis. Sed et Paulus ad Ephesios scribens, Secundum operationem, inquit, potentiae virtutis ejus, quam operatus est in Christo, suscitans eum a mortuis, et sedere faciens in dextera sua. Rufninus Aquileiensis, Commentarius In Symbolum Apostolorum Source: Migne PL 21.368a-b

He Ascended into Heaven, and Sits on the Right Hand of the Father... To sit at the right hand of the Father is a mystery belonging to the assumption of the flesh. For it it is not suited to the incorporeal nature without the assumption of flesh, nor is a heavenly seat suited to the perfection of the Divine nature, but it is for the human. Whence it is said of Him, 'Your seat, O God, is prepared from thence, you are from everlasting.' 1 The seat, therefore, on which the Lord Jesus was to sit, was prepared from everlasting, 'in whose name every knee should bow, the things of heaven and of earth, and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess to Him that Jesus is Lord in the glory of God the Father.' 2 Of whom also David thus speaks, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.' 3 Concerning which words the Lord in the Gospel says to the Pharisees, 'If therefore David in the spirit calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?' 4 By which He showed that according to the Spirit He is the Lord, according to the flesh He the Son of David. Whence also the Lord again says: 'Truly I say to you, henceforth you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the power of God.' 5 And the Apostle Peter says of Christ, 'He who is at the right hand of God, seated in the heavens.' 6 And Paul also, writing to the Ephesians, says: 'According to the working of the might of His power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand.' 7 Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentary On The Apostles' Creed 1 Ps 92.2 2 Philip 2.10-11 3 Ps 109.1 4 Mt 22.45 5 Mt 26.64 6 1 Pet 3.22 7 Ephes 1.19-20