you will not see it come. People will not be saying, “Here it is!” or “There!” And the reason why is this—the Kingdom of God is within you’ (Lk. 17:20f., Rieu’s translation). How would He go about establishing a Kingdom like that? They may well have been driven to reflect that the Aramaic word for ‘kingdom’ (like its Hebrew and Greek equivalents) does not mean so much a realm as a reign. We do well to be cautious here, for we can easily go astray by interpreting the Kingdom in terms of kingdoms we
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