“Let men therefore learn and understand why the Most High God, when He sent His ambassador and messenger to instruct mortals with the precepts of His righteousness, willed that He should be clothed with mortal flesh, and be afflicted with torture, and be sentenced to death. For since there was no righteousness on earth…”
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, 4th c. — The Divine Institutes Book 4, Chapter XXV
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2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
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1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
— Hebrews 8:2 —
3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: