To his
home circle, to priests in the temples of the gods, and even to the
royal Tiberius he is to herald the gospel of the resurrection. His
vision of the risen Lord is the measure of his opportunity.
Then the Master looks into his very face, and remembers him as the
Roman knight he had seen in the Porch of Solomon. The half
thousand disciples on Kurn Hattin prostrate themselves to the
earth; and in their acclaim the soldier joins his voice, "Rabboni!
Rabboni! Our great Master!" Then departs the Christ, and back to
their homes they go, evermore to comfort themselves with the vision
of their risen Lord.
Soon afterward their Rabboni goes from earth. Out beyond the hill
of Olivet he walks one day with his eleven. In their last words
together he reminds them again that they are to be his heralds to
the eastern world. A cloud gathers above their heads, like some
halting chariot, and he is gone forever from human sight. Yet only
in the distance it seems a cloud. For John afterward says to
Quintus that it was in reality a phalanx of ten thousand angels,
robed in whiteness and sent to convoy the Son of God to glory
everlasting.
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