"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His own Father with His angels." [5737] 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." [5738] And it was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our sins [5739] 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 [5740] 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," [5741] since He formerly became conformed to "the body of our humiliation," [5742] when He "emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant," [5743] He is restored to the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.

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Footnotes:

[5737] Matthew 16:27.

[5738] Isaiah 53:2, 3.

[5739] Isaiah 53:4.

[5740] Reading proeutrepisos as the Vetus Inter.

[5741] Romans 8:29.

[5742] Philippians 3:21.

[5743] Philippians 2:7.