The 'going up' of the Son of Man into...

The 'going up' of the Son of Man into heaven was also His 'being taken up/ the Ascension was an Assumption; and the words answer to two complementary aspects of the event. The one represents Jesus Christ as entering the Presence of the Father of His own will and right; the other lays the emphasis on the Father's act by which He was exalted as the reward of His obedience unto death ... as seen by the spectators, the ascent was bounded by the sky, but viewed in the light of the Spirit, it carried the Lord beyond all bounds of space.