Gregory the Great (540-604): Jesus is Continually Presenting A Sacrifice Before God

  

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32. Job does not cease ‘to offer sacrifice continually,’ in that our Redeemer offers a holocaust for us without ceasing, Who without intermission exhibits to the Father His Incarnation in our behalf. For His very Incarnation is itself the offering for our purification, and while He shews Himself as Man, He is the Intercession that washes out man's misdeeds, and in the mystery of His Humanity He offers a perpetual Sacrifice, even because those things too are eternal which He purifies. (Gregory the Great, Commentary on Job (Ancient Bible Commentary in English; trans. John Litteral; Ashland, Ky.: Litteral’s Christian Library Publications, 2014], Book 1, p. 17)

 

For those who us familiar with the theology of the Mass, this should stand out: as with the Vulgate of Heb 10:12, Jesus is presently offering a sacrifice, not interceding merely in heaven.