The Book of Steps

...but [he] sought, however, how he received from the living God and the service of his Son for his humanity.

Another person [might ask] again, how his humanity would be shown, and he might know more precisely how he serves while those prophets of his humanity, while they prayed, would be heard. Because, how, while they [prayed]... The text here is fragmented and repetitive, likely due to a copyist error or damaged manuscript. ...they would be heard, while they prayed...

12. Learn therefore, understand, and be persuaded in your mind that it was most fitting that those three most excellent prophets and outstanding shepherds were not heard when they prayed for themselves. For a testament will not be firm unless he who wrote it has diedoriginal: "non enim firmum erit testamentum nisi mortuus fuerit qui scripsit illud". A testament was promised to the people of Israel through Moses, namely that he would give them the land of Canaan as an inheritance. Another testament was promised through Jesus, that he would hand over to the Gentiles the land of life. Moses died on this side of the Jordan, and the testament which he had pledged to his people was confirmed. Then Jesus died in the land of our mortality, and the testament established for the Gentiles by him was confirmed, promising that he would give them the land of life. To Moses, the Lord showed the land of promise before Israel obtained it as an inheritance; Jesus, however, our Savior...