Therefore, when Christ sits at God’s right hand, it means that he participates in the divine power, glory, and dominion over all things in heaven and on earth. It is a statement acknowledging the present Lordship of Jesus Christ. The older dogmaticians (Martin Chemnitz, John Andrew Quenstedt, John Gerhard, David Hollaz) interpreted the “right hand of God” in a broad sense to refer to the Lordship of Christ in terms of three ways in which he rules in the world. First there is the “rule of grace” (regnum