We will return to the connections between the Temple and the priesthood in our final section below. For now, it is simply necessary to point out that in an ancient Jewish context, the notion that both the Temple and the cosmos could somehow be embodied in a single individual had a ready example in the figure of the High Priest. As the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo says: the High Priest “represents the world” and is a “microcosm” or “little world” (brachys kosmos).47 Indeed, one could even