blood.1 And, yet again, it is thus that He gives us the consolation of words spoken at the moment when His departure was at hand, “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.”2 Rightly conceived, the work of Intercession on the part of our heavenly High-priest seems to be that, having restored the broken covenant and brought His Israel into the most intimate union and communion with