Sunday, March 15, 2009

Heb 7, 12-16 Another priest is raised up

(Heb 7, 12-16) Another priest is raised up
[12] When there is a change of priesthood, there is necessarily a change of law as well. [13] Now he of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, of which no member ever officiated at the altar. [14] It is clear that our Lord arose from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. [15] It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek, [16] who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
(CCC 648) Christ's Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In it the three divine persons act together as one, and manifest their own proper characteristics. The Father's power "raised up" Christ his Son and by doing so perfectly introduced his Son's humanity, including his body, into the Trinity. Jesus is conclusively revealed as "Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his Resurrection from the dead" (Rom 1 3-4; cf. Acts 2:24). St. Paul insists on the manifestation of God's power (Cf. Rom 6:4; 2 Cor 13:4; Phil 3:10; Eph 1:19-22; Heb 7:16). through the working of the Spirit who gave life to Jesus' dead humanity and called it to the glorious state of Lordship. (CCC 649) As for the Son, he effects his own Resurrection by virtue of his divine power. Jesus announces that the Son of man will have to suffer much, die, and then rise (Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:9-31; 10:34). Elsewhere he affirms explicitly: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again…. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again" (Jn 10:17-18). "We believe that Jesus died and rose again" (1 Thess 4:14).

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