Passes heavens as God and flesh; priestly call fits assumed humanity

Tempted—from where? For he was merciful by nature and is as God; but since, along with being what he is, he also became as we are, these things are also said of him in a human way. And it says he passed through the heavens both bodily and in a God-befitting way. For he went up, as the all-wise Paul says somewhere, “now to appear before the face of God for us,” yet he also passes through the heavens in another manner, the blessed angels being worsted and going behind his glory. For he is, he is, as God above every rule and authority and lordship and every name that is named, whether in this age or in the one to come. For he sits with his own Father as Son even if he became as we are economically.

“And no one takes the honor for himself, but being called by God, just as Aaron also was. So also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who spoke to him: You are my Son; today I have begotten you.” The one who let himself down into emptying awaits the Father’s call that carries him into priesthood—the call most customary and fitting not rather to his own nature, but to the nature that is as we are, that is the human, into which, since he has come inside it, he endures what belongs to it. So he has been called as Aaron also was, yet not in an equal manner. For the one was anointed toward priestly service and was a household slave, but this one is called as Son and ministers to the Father according to the order of Melchizedek. “Who in the days of his flesh, having offered petitions and entreaties with a strong cry and tears to the one able to save him from death, and having been heard from reverence, although being Son, learned obedience from what he suffered, and having been perfected became to all who obey him cause of eternal salvation.”