80. Furthermore, we are taught how He is
made “higher than the heavens.”
“Unspotted,” saith the Scripture, Heb. vii. 26, 27. “separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens; not having daily need, as the priests have
need, to offer a victim first for his own sins, and then for those of
the people. For this He did by sacrificing Himself once and for
all.” None is said to be made higher, save he who has in
some respect been lower; Christ, then, is, by His sitting at the right
hand of the Father, made higher in regard of that wherein, being made
lower than the angels, He offered Himself to suffer.