Exodus 29:5 (WEB)
You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
Catechism · 1
“A special rite consecrated the beginnings of the priesthood of the Old Covenant. the priests are "appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins."” — Catechism footnote: Heb 5:1; cf. Ex 29:1-30; Lev 8.
Fathers and councils · 2
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…God willed, he became a high-priest; yet became so, not simply, nor as betokened by his ordinary garments, but putting over them the ephod, the breastplate, the robe, which the women wrought at God’s command, and going in them into the holy place, he offered the sacrifice for the people; and in them, as it were,…” — editor's note: Exod. xxix. 5.
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Gregory the Great
“Wherefore by command of the supernal voice (Exod. xxix. 5) the priest is braced on each shoulder with the robe of the ephod, that he may be always guarded against prosperity and adversity by the ornament…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.3.