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Chapter
XLVI.—Anointing.
“But now also I shall, by a very short
representation, recall you to the recollection of all these
things. In the present life, Aaron, the first high
priest,579
was anointed with a composition of chrism,
which was made after the pattern of that spiritual ointment of which we
have spoken before. He was prince of the people, and as a king
received first-fruits and tribute from the people, man by man; and
having undertaken the office of judging the people, he judged of things
clean and things unclean. But if any one else was anointed with
the same ointment, as deriving virtue from it, he became either king,
or prophet, or priest. If, then, this temporal grace, compounded
by men, had such efficacy, consider now how potent was that ointment
extracted by God from a branch of the tree of life, when that which was
made by men could confer so excellent dignities among men. For
what in the present age is more glorious than a prophet, more
illustrious than a priest, more exalted than a king?”
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