be highly exalted because of us and on our behalf, that as by his death we all died in Christ, so also in Christ himself we may all be exalted, being raised from the dead and ascending into heaven ‘whither Jesus the forerunner has entered for us …’ [Heb. 6:20]. And if it is now for us that Christ has entered into heaven itself, though he was before and always is the Lord and the maker of the heavens, it is therefore for us that Scripture speaks of his being exalted. Just as He who himself sanctified