glory of God that no one can see on earth and live, the unveiled radiance of “who God is.” Just as the prologue told us that this heavenly glory that the Son shares with the Father in eternity was seen in the flesh, in veiled form in the earthly life and death of Jesus, so the passion narrative tells us that it was seen in veiled form in the cross prior to Jesus’s return to the presence of the Father to share once again the unveiled glory of the Father.
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