“Jesus now stands "before the face of God interceding for us." He stands before the altar to offer a propitiation to God for us. As he was about to approach that altar, moreover, he was saying, "I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until I drink it anew with you." Therefore, he expects us to be converted,…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.2
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25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
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23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
— Hebrews 7:25 —
26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.