Yes, exactly the gospel according to Matthew had opened with the announcement of the coming of the Emmanuel, that is the God-with-us (see Matthew 1:22-23), of the God who comes by means of Jesus and now it ends with words which ensure that God’s presence among the men will go on: “I am with you, until the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). Therefore the ascension is another way of catching Jesus’ victory over death because it allows us to distinguish Jesus next to the Father, and yet always among us. And by now in God there is a transfigured and glorified human body for us, a divinized human body in which death, and consequently all the evil powers, were won: “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? — Paul the Apostle says — Who is the one who condemns? Perhaps Jesus Christ, who died, or rather rose from the dead, who sits at the right hand of God and intercedes for us?” (Romans 8:33-34).