CHAPTER XXIV: QUESTION 22: THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST

[1542] See St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, chaps. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, in which he states that Christ as priest is more excellent than the angels, Moses, and the priests of the Old Testament. Also Garrigou-Lagrange, Le Sauveur, pp. 282-93; J. M. Voste, Studia paulina, sec. 6: also for Christ the priest, see St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, chaps. 5-8, for Christ the victim

[1543] Heb. 4:14

[1544] Denz., nos. 122f.

[1545] Ibid., nos. 938f.

[1546] Ibid., no. 2195.

[1547] II Pet. 1:4.

[1548] Col. 1:19f.

[1549] Isa. 33:22

[1550] Eph. 5:2.

[1551] Denz., nos. 938-40

[1552] John 10-18

[1553] Com. in Lev. chap. 1.

[1554] cf. ad 2, ad 3.

[1555] cf. Garrigou-Lagrange, Le Sauveur, pp. 284f.

[1556] Summa theol., IIIa, q. 22, a. 3, ad 3; q. 48, a. 3.

[1557] Rom. 3:24; Heb. 9:14.

[1558] Isa. 53:4.

[1559] Denz., nos. 938-40

[1560] John 1:29

[1561] Denz., no. 122

[1562] Heb. 9:26f.

[1563] Ps. 109:4

[1564] Heb. 7:25

[1565] The whole article should be read

[1566] cf. ad 1, ad 2.

[1567] John 19:30

[1568] See Garrigou-Lagrange, Le Sauveur, pp. 289f.

[1569] Civilta cattolica, 1926, p. 182

[1570] Ps, 44:8; 9:24

[1571] Summa theol., IIIa, q. 22, a. 2, ad 3. But this text is perhaps spurious. See Leonine edition

[1572] Ibid., q. 24, a. 1, ad 2.

[1573] Ibid., q. 26, a. 2; q. 58, a. 3.

[1574] Elevations sur les mysteres, elevations I and 6.

[1575] Ps. 109:4. See also Heb. 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7:1, 10, 11, 15, 17.

[1576] Gen. 14:18.

[1577] Heb. 7:3.

[1578] cf. IIIa, q. 48, a. 3; also q. 83