Emptied unto death yet remains God; Jesus named as apostle-priest

So a work of truly holy-fitting skill, and pleasing to God, would be to bring under the accounts of the economy what seems set against Christ’s glory. For the Word, being God and in the form and equality of the Father, lowered himself into emptying and became obedient as far as death. So every thought must be turned cleverly, and as it were taken captive into his obedience; for if something even of the human things is said, the smallness in humanity would in no way wrong the Word’s nature, if he is believed to have become human for us also, and nowhere to have cast off being God — but, along with remaining God, to have taken on the human, and to have become obedient as far as death according to the flesh.

“Therefore, holy brothers, sharers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus, being faithful to the one who made him, as also Moses was in his whole house. For this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. And Moses was faithful as a servant in his house, but Christ as a son over his house, whose house we are.” Jesus has become apostle and high priest of our confession from God the Father — that is, the Word from God having appeared as human. For then he was also named Jesus through the angel’s voice. And both the name and the fact of priesthood and of apostleship are quite small for the Word’s nature; yet for the measures of humanity they would not be unfitting; for as he himself says somewhere…