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   "For in times of old, heaven was utterly inaccessible to mortals, and no   
   flesh as yet had ever traveled that pure and all-holy realm of the angels.   
   But Christ was the first who consecrated for us the means of access to   
   himself and granted to flesh a way of entrance into heaven. He did this by   
   presenting himself as an offering to God the Father, the "firstfruits of   
   those who are asleep" (1 Cor. 15:20) and are lying in the tomb, and by   
   presenting himself as the first human being that ever appeared in heaven.   
   For Christ did not ascend on high in order to present himself before the   
   presence of God the Father. He always was and is and will be continually in   
   the Father, in the sight of him who begat him."   
      
   St. Cyril of Alexandria, On the Ascension.   
      
   "Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations."   
   Psalm 82:8   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)