salvation, Jesus Christ, the High Priest*®* who offers our
EpisTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS
em But to the sinner God said: "Why do you speak of my ordinances and why do you have my covenant on your lips?
8 You hated discipline and paid no attention to my words.
Whenever you saw a thief, you ran along with him; and with adulterers you threw in your lot. Your mouth brimmed over with malice, and your tongue wove treacherous plots.
There you sat backbiting and laying a snare for your very brother. 9 This you did, and I kept silent. You, man without principles, supposed that I should be like you! 10 I will put you in the wrong, and show you to yourself in your true light!
11 Now, take my words to heart, you who are forgetting God; - or else He will like a lion carry you off, with no one to rescue you. 12 A sacrifice of praise will honor me, and there is the way in which I will show him the salvation of man."
36. This, beloved, is the way in which we found our salvation, Jesus Christ, the High Priest*®* who offers our gifts, the patron and helper in our weakness. 2 It is through Him that we look straight at the heavens above. 'Through Him we see mirrored God's faultless and transcendent countenance." Through Him the eyes of our heart were opened.
Through Him our unintelligent and darkened mind shoots up into the light. Through Him the Master was pleased to let us taste the knowledge that never fades; for,*°* being Himself the radiance of His splendor, He towers as much above the angels as the title He has inherited is superior to theirs.
3 For thus the Scripture says: *°? He appointed winds to be His angels, and fiery flames His ministers. 4 But about His
Son the Master spoke thus: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten Thee. Ask of me, and I will give Thee the nations for Thy inheritance, and the vast, wide earth for Thy possession. 5 And again He says to Him: ° Be seated at my right hand, until I make Thy foes a footstool for Thy feet.