Verily, verily; truly, truly. When thus repeated, it denotes the great importance and absolute certainty of what was declared.

Hereafter; rather, henceforward.

Heaven open-the angels of God ascending and descending; the allusion is to Jacob's vision of a ladder reaching to heaven, on which the angels of God were ascending and descending. The meaning is, henceforward ye shall see a constant communication established between heaven and the Son of man: the reference is not so much to particular appearances of angels, as to the full and constant communion which the Son of man has with God, and which he gives to each of his disciples in his measure.

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