That does not completely explain the second sentence, though. “He saw it and was glad.” If Jesus was strictly speaking in the sense that Abraham would see Jesus’ day from his place in the afterlife, Jesus could have said, “Abraham is seeing it now and is glad.” Instead Jesus uses the past tense.
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