Ark types Christ; mediator; cloud shelter; wages parable begins

For first for us and on behalf of us having attacked death, he both dissolved that one’s power, and reconnoitered the rest for us, renewing unto incorruption. First he entered into paradise, as it were entreating away the turning sword, and standing off from us the sin that was shutting out. For he himself paid the debts on behalf of us, and by his bruise we were healed, according to what has been written. For first he went up toward the Father and God, inaugurating for us the upward journey, and preparing beforehand the upper dwellings. Therefore he also was saying: ‘I will go and prepare a place for you.’ Christ therefore was being typed beforehand as in the ark; for that one had been constructed from woods that do not rot, and was packing densely in itself the divine law, which is God’s Word. And you would see the mystery upon Christ resembling this. For the Word was God in an incorruptible temple. Therefore the ark was going forward reconnoitering the rest for those from Israel. And our Christ also goes forward according to the manners just now said to us; and besides this also filling the mediator’s need, he becomes advocate toward the Father, and propitiation on behalf of us, according as Moses also of old; who in the lifting of the ark was saying: ‘Rise up, Lord, let your enemies be scattered, let all who hate you flee;’ yet in the resting: ‘Return, Lord, thousands of myriads in Israel.’ For when the Only-begotten has been raised toward our help and the one who of old was saying through the Psalmist’s voice: ‘From the misery of the poor and the groaning of the needy now I will rise, says the Lord;’ then the enemies have fallen, and those who have stood against and fight with the divine glory have fled. For he has triumphed in the cross over rulers and authorities; and having died he has abolished the ruler of this age, according to what has been written; and having as it were rested, and brought to an end the whole economy through the resurrection from dead ones and the journey upward toward the Father, he turned the whole earth, and was making thousands of myriads his own worshipers: ‘For when,’ he was saying, ‘I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all toward myself.’ Therefore Moses’ prayer would be a type of Christ’s mediation, according at least to the human form, praying and asking for us the finest things from beside the God and Father. For as divine John says: ‘We have an advocate toward the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also on behalf of the whole world.’ And besides again we have him as shelterer, being understood as in the overshadowing cloud. For let the one being justified by the faith into him hear: ‘By day the sun will not burn you, nor the moon the night.’ And some also say in the distribution of the wages, according to the evangelical parable