Epistle to the Hebrews: "The Song of the Bridegroom", 1:3

ος ων απαυγασμα της δοξης και χαρακτηρ της υποστασεως αυτου φερων τε τα παντα τω ρηματι της δυναμεως αυτου δι εαυτου καθαρισμον ποιησαμενος των αμαρτιων ημων εκαθισεν εν δεξια της μεγαλωσυνης εν υψηλοις

He is the radiant glory and the precise representation of his being, who sustains all that is by the word of his power; after he within himself purified our sins he sat at the right hand of the majesty in the exalted heights.

Jesus is the glory of God. All the glory, majesty, and splendor that we may ever be able to understand belongs to God, is owed to the person of Jesus. Jesus is the very splendor that gives God the glory ascribed to his divine being. Without Jesus, the Deity would not have any glory. Jesus is the inherent glory and majesty and eternity of God.

The author does not mince words to describe the divine nature of Jesus. Jesus is of the same essence, the same divine substance of God. Therefore he is the exact and faithful representation of God. Therefore, all the inherent power of Jesus emanates from his word with which he sustains all that exists. All that time and space encompass with their infinite galaxies, suns and worlds is sustained throughout the infiniteness of eternity by his word that springs from his divine power.

The power is not in his word. His word is powerful because Jesus is the glory of God and the power of God. His word springs from his infinite and majestic glory.

In that being of infinite majesty, glory and power, were purified all the sins of humanity. But that purification was not purged in his glorified body but in his human body. In his body crushed by our pain and shamefulness were purified all the sins of humanity. Infinite glory resolved to bring an end to the problem of human shame. Jesus in his own body took all the guilt, rebellion, pride, envy, malice and murderous bent of humanity. Mysteriously he integrated all evil into his own body of love. His love purified all the sin of humanity in his own body. This is great good news for all sinners. Our sins were purged, purified, forgiven, absolved, quashed, eradicated in a body other than our own, and before we even came into being. We were forgiven in his body. Everything was purified in his body, and not in our own. In our own body we suffer sin and all its consequences. But in the body of Jesus of Nazareth we were forgiven because in his body were purified our sins once and for all! May the name of our Lord be praised and glorified!

The radical certainty that our sins were purified in his body is repeated with other metaphors and symbols in Hebrews 3 and 4. There the author employs the theme of resting by faith in Christ to highlight the finished work of Christ on our behalf.

Due to his work of presenting his body for the purification of the sins of humanity, and the full consummation of that work on our behalf, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty of God in the exalted heavenly heights. The glory of God was overlaid with the work of Christ consummating the forgiveness of our sins through his shed blood on the cross. Our sins were purified with his blood and in his body. His great work of giving his life as a sacrifice for us adorns the glory of God and grants him the right to sit at the right hand of the majesty of God in the most exalted heavenly places.