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Men of weight cannot , by definition, move like the lightning from the East unto the West, and the ascent of a fourteen-stone bishop into a pulpit is thus the exact antithesis of the coming of the Son of Man.

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meaning of the following sentence(thank you)
 Men of weight cannot , by definition, move like the lightning from the East unto the West, and the ascent of a fourteen-stone bishop into a pulpit is thus the exact antithesis of the coming of the Son of Man.

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A stone is a British measure of weight, approximately equal to 6.36 kilograms.  A fourteen-stone bishop would weight about 89 kg.  Such a man would not be able to move very fast and would thus be the opposite of Jesus (the Son of Man), who in Christian theology could move as fast as lightning from the East to (unto) the West.
The pulpit is the wooden stand behind which a bishop would preach.

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