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And hence that true Mediator, in so far as, by assuming the form of
a servant, He became the Mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, though in the form of God He received sacrifice
together with the Father, with whom He is one God, yet in the form
of a servant He chose rather to be than to receive a sacrifice, that
not even by this instance any one might have occasion to suppose that
sacrifice should be rendered to any creature. Thus He is both the
Priest who offers and the Sacrifice offered. And He designed that
there should be a daily sign of this in the sacrifice of the Church,
which, being His body, learns to offer herself through Him. Of
this true Sacrifice the ancient sacrifices of the saints were the
various and numerous signs; and it was thus variously figured, just as
one thing is signified by a variety of words, that there may be less
weariness when we speak of it much. To this supreme and true sacrifice
all false sacrifices have given place.
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