such an High Priest became us,
voluntary or involuntary sin, who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
and hence his head is anointed separate from sinners.'--Heb. vii. 26.
with oil.'--De Profugis.
The New Testament says of Christ:
Philo mentions the Logos
as the great High Priest and 'We have such an High Priest, who is
Mediator for the sins of the set on the throne of the majest in
world. Speaking of the rebellion the heavens, a mediator of a
of Korah, he introduces the better covenant.'--Heb. viii. 1-6.
Logos as saying :--
'But Christ being come an High
'It was I who stood in the Priest ... entered at once into
middle between the Lord and the holy place, having obtained
you. eternal redemption for us.'--Heb.
ix. 11, 12.
'The sacred Logos pressed
with zeal and without remission The New Testament says of John, the
that he might stand forerunner of Jesus, that he preached
between the dead and the 'the baptism of repentance for the
living.--Quis Rerum Div. remission of sins.'--Mark i. 4.
Haeres.
Jesus says:--
The Logos, the Saviour
God, who brings salvation as 'Ye will not come to me, that ye
the reward of repentance and might have life.'--John v. 40.
righteousness.
'Beloved, we be now the sons of
'If then men have from God; and it doth not yet appear
their very souls a just what we shall be; but we know that
contrition, and are changed, when he doth appear we shall be
and have humbled themselves for like him.'--1 John iii. 2.
their past errors, acknowledging
and confessing their 'As we have born the image of the
sins, such persons shall find earthy, we shall also bear the image
pardon from the Saviour and of the heavenly.'--1 Cor. xv. 49.
merciful God, and receive a
most choice and great advantage 'For if we have been planted
of being like the Logos together in the likeness of his
of God, who was originally death, we shall be also in the
the great archetype after likeness of his resurrection.'--
which the soul of man was Rom. vi. 5.
formed.'--De Execrationibus.

Here, then, we get, complete, the idea of Christ as the Word of God, and
we see that Christianity is