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who deny that the Savior sits in the flesh at the right hand of God the Father, but [only] according to that by which He went out and placed Him in the sun. Against which it is said in the end of Matthew: "The Lord Jesus, indeed, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God." Whence in the creed it is said: "He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father."
The sixth article is concerning the coming to judgment.
Of which the Lord Himself says in Matthew 25: "When the Son of Man shall come in His majesty, and all the angels with Him, then He shall sit on the seat of His majesty, etc." And Paul says in Acts 10: "This is He who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead," that is, of the good and the evil, or of those who are already dead and those who will be found alive at the coming of Christ. And concerning this, those err of whom it is said in 2 Peter 3: "There shall come in the last days deceitful scoffers, walking according to their own concupiscences, and saying: 'Where is now His promise or His coming?'" Against which it is said in Job 19: "Flee ye from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquity, and know ye that there is a judgment." Whence in the creed it is said: "From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead." Those, however, who posit seven articles of humanity distinguish the first article into two, namely, positing the conception of Christ under one article and His nativity under another.
Now it remains to see concerning the sacraments of the Church, which, however, are all comprehended under the fourth article, which pertains to the effect of grace. But since you have made a special question concerning the sacraments, these must be treated separately. It is therefore first to be known that, as Augustine says in the third book On the City of God,