Interesting indeed, Violet. The RSV also as "in the presence of Christ," translating, I think, "en prosōpō christou" as it would have understood before the term "prosōpōn" became a technical term in the trinitarian disputes, then meaning "person." It is Hebrews that talks about the one High Priest, and it says there is only the one priest. Somehow later theologians began to think others could participate in that priesthood, a though foreign to Hebrews. And the rest is history. . .