Right-hand seat and ministry; redemption by his own blood

“Now the main point on what is being said: we have such a high priest who sat at the right of the throne of majesty in the heavens, a minister of the holies and of the true tent which the Lord pitched and not a human.” Having come there he brings forward to God and Father those who believe in him, sanctified through the Spirit: “for no one comes to the Father except through me.” And that although he is said to minister he is not less than the Father, it shows further clearly by his being seated on the divine thrones and sitting at the right of the one who begot him. But if someone should say, calumniating the truth, that yes a human has sat privately at the Father’s right, joined to the Word only by equality of dignity, he no longer says the highest throne belongs to the holy Trinity in an only-begotten way, but already some fourth, recent and created god is inserted among us.

“But Christ, having arrived as high priest of the coming goods, through the greater and more perfect tent, not handmade… and through his own blood entered once for all into the holies, having found eternal redemption.” How then would the one at the Father’s right as God be said to have his own blood, unless we have believed that the Son from God the Father by nature has also been styled son of man, and giving his own blood as exchange for the life of all, found for the world this redemption unto the age?