For the Son of man is These words do not occur in the original.

taking a far journey Literally, one who is absent from his people, who goes on foreign travel. "Which gon fer in pilgrimage," Wyclif. The verb formed from it occurs in chap. Mark 12:1, "A certain man planted a vineyard … and went into a farcountry." Even so our Lord left His Church, gave authority to His servants the Apostles, and to those who should come after them, and to every man his work, and is now waiting for the consummation of all things.

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