{"id":34892,"date":"2018-11-25T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34892"},"modified":"2017-12-02T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:30:08","slug":"eternal-kingdom-and-the-dignity-of-its-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/eternal-kingdom-and-the-dignity-of-its-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Kingdom and the dignity of its King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The glory and nobility of God\u2019s eternal Kingdom have to be estimated from the dignity of its King, <strong>since a king is not derived from a kingdom but a kingdom from a king<\/strong>. And he indeed is King who has on his garment and on his thigh a name written: King of kings and Lord of lords (Apoc. 19:16), whose power is everlasting power that shall\u00a0 not be taken away (Dan. 7:14), whose kingdom will not be destroyed and whom all tribes ad peoples and tongues (Apoc. 7:9) will serve throughout eternity. He is truly a\u00a0peaceable (1 Chron. 22:9) King, whose countenance both heaven and all the earth desire to look upon\u00a0 (1 Kings 10:24).<\/p>\n<p>In this eternal kingdom, <i>all good and perfect gifts come down<\/i> in plenty and abundance <i>from the Father of Lights <\/i>(James 1:17) through Jesus Christ, who is the super-essential Ray and who since he <i>is one, can do all things, and renews all things<\/i> (Wisdom 7:27).<\/p>\n<p>St. Bonaventure<br \/>\n<em>The Tree of Life<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glory and nobility of God\u2019s eternal Kingdom have to be estimated from the dignity of its King, since a king is not derived from a kingdom but a kingdom from a king. And he indeed is King who has on his garment and on his thigh a name written: King of kings and Lord &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/eternal-kingdom-and-the-dignity-of-its-king\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eternal Kingdom and the dignity of its King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34893,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions\/34893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}