Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on Matthew/Origen's Commentary on Matthew/Book XII/Chapter 29

29.&#160; The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.

&#8220;For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His own Father with His angels.&#8221; &#160; Now, indeed, the Son of man has not come in His glory; &#8220;for we saw Him, and He had no form nor beauty; but His form was dishonoured and defective compared with the sons of men; He was a man in affliction and toil, and acquainted with the enduring of sickness, because His face was turned away, He was dishonoured and not esteemed.&#8221; &#160; And it was necessary that He should come in such form that He might bear our sins and suffer pain for us; for it did not become Him in glory to bear our sins and suffer pain for us.&#160; But He also comes in glory, having prepared the disciples through that epiphany of His which has no form nor beauty; and, having become as they that they might become as He, &#8220;conformed to the image of His glory,&#8221; since He formerly became conformed to &#8220;the body of our humiliation,&#8221; when He &#8220;emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant,&#8221; He is restored to the image of God and also makes them conformed unto it.