After Jesus’ resurrection it must have become meaningless to expect a second figure in addition to him with the same function and the same mode of coming. By virtue of the resurrection, Jesus had moved into the role of the Son of Man.
Wofhart Pannenberg. Jesus: God and Man, Second Edition, Trans. Lewis L. Wilkins and Duane A. Priebe, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977), 69.
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