"Wherefore, it behooved him to be made like his brethren in all things, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, in order to make expiation for the sins of the people.

For if he were on earth, he could not be a priest; because there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

by a new and living way which he has dedicated for us, through the vail, that is, his flesh;

But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.