Exact imprint; life-giving touch; hilasterion in his blood

…God has sealed.” The Son of Man has given us the food that remains into eternal life — clearly his flesh; for it is life-giving. Then how is the one who can give life even through his own flesh not God, and like in all things to God the Father? For this I take to be what it means to say he has been sealed by God — “to have been sealed” signifying the exact likeness. For just as if someone presses a gold seal — or one made of another material — into wax, he marks the whole impress of it from the whole, so also God the Father has the characters of his own nature essentially shining in the Son. And this is what it means to say he has been sealed by the Father.

From Luke’s Gospel. Christ raised Lazarus, the synagogue ruler’s little daughter, the widow’s son. Then how is he not life by nature — the one who can terrify death not only by a word but also by the touch of the hand? For it was both fitting and necessary that the body of the life by nature be life-giving.

That he is a hilasterion through faith. From the letter to the Romans. About Christ he says: “Whom God put forward as a hilasterion through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins that had happened before in God’s forbearance, toward the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he might be…