2. The Apostle explains in what sense Christ is our “advocate;” it is, as advocate, or Mediator of Redemption, who made atonement for our sins, paid the ransom, and substituted himself in our place, as a vicarious offering, αντιλυτρον, as St. Paul expresses it.—(1 Tim. 2:5, 6) Is not the Catholic doctrine respecting the invocation of angels and saints opposed to this? By no means, since we invoke them, in quite a different sense, merely as mediators, or advocates of intercession, to obtain for us