17 Because he was about to be made manifest in the flesh and to dwell in us.
18 For, my brethren, the habitation of our heart is a 'holy temple unto the Lord. For the prophet saith again, In what place shall I appear before the Lord my God, and be glorified?
19 He answers I will confess unto thee in the congregation in the midst of my brethren; and will sing unto thee in the church of the saints:
20 Wherefore we are they whom he has brought into that good land.
21 But what signifies the milk and honey? Because as the child is nourished first with milk, and then with honey; so we being kept alive by the belief of his promises and his word, shall live and have dominion over the land.
22 For he foretold before, saying, increase and multiply, and have dominion over the beasts, fishes, and birds.
23 But who is there that is now able to have this dominion over the wild beasts, or fishes, or fowls of the air? For you know that to rule, is to have power; that a man should be set over what he rules.
24 But forasmuch as this we have not now, he tells us when we shall have it; namely, when we shall become perfect, that we may be made the inheritors of the covenant of the Lord.
CHAPTER VI.
The sacrifice of Jesus, and of a goat, an evident type of Christ crucified.