29. The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His own Father with His angels." ¹ Now, indeed, the Son of man has not come in His glory; "for we saw Him, and He had no form nor beauty; but His form was dishonoured and defective compared with the sons of men; He was a man in affliction and toil, and acquainted with the enduring of sickness, because His face was turned away, He was dishonoured and not esteemed." ² And it was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our sins ³ and suffer pain for us; for it did not become Him in glory to bear our sins and suffer pain for us. But He also comes in glory, having prepared ⁴ the disciples through that epiphany of His which has no form nor beauty; and, having become as they that they might become as He, "conformed to the image of His glory," ⁵ since He formerly became conformed to "the body of our humiliation," ⁶ when He "emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant," ⁷ He is restored to the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.