AN ALLY OF Luther's named johann Brenz computed the distance from earth to heaven to be 16,338,562 German miles. Harold O. J. Brown tells us: "Given the speed of Jesus' ascent from the Mount of Olives, as Brenz estimated it, Brenz concluded that the body of Jesus could not yet have reached heaven by the sixteenth century." Thus did Brenz refute Zwingli's insistence that Christ is literally at the right hand of God.

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