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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: into the sky, whence he might shortly be expected to make his
appearance, to enact the scenes foretold in prophecy. That such
was the actual process of inference is shown by the legend of the
Ascension in the first chapter of the "Acts," and especially by
the words, "This Jesus who hath been taken up from you into
heaven, will come in the same manner in which ye beheld him going
into heaven." In the Apocalypse, written A. D. 68, just after the
death of Nero, this second coming is described as something
immediately to happen, and the colours in which it is depicted
show how closely allied were the Johannine notions to those of
the Pharisees. The glories of the New Jerusalem are to be
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