The reading of the
earlier Editions ὑπὲρ
ἀνθρώπων is free from
all difficulty, and so the more likely to have been substituted for
what is at first sight more difficult ὑπὲρ
ἄνθρωπον, the reading
of Cod. Coislin. adopted by the Benedictine and subsequent
Editors. The idea of a super-human Priesthood to which the Son in
His Divine nature was anointed by the Father from eternity is repeated
by Cyril in § 14 of this Lecture, and in Cat. xi. 1, 14. See
Index, “Priesthood,” and the reference there given to a
fuller consideration of the subject in the Introduction.