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The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Offering oftentimes the same sacrifices
For by one offering he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified.
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nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own); otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And so every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God,
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Being of the order of aaron
where our precursor, Jesus, has entered for us and is made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being transposed, there is made of necessity a translation also of the law. For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no one presided at the altar. read more.
For it is manifest that our Lord sprang out of Juda, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more manifest: if there arises another priest who is like unto Melchisedec, who is not made according to the law of a carnal commandment, but by the virtue of an indissoluble life; for the testimony is of this manner, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
For it is manifest that our Lord sprang out of Juda, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more manifest: if there arises another priest who is like unto Melchisedec, who is not made according to the law of a carnal commandment, but by the virtue of an indissoluble life; for the testimony is of this manner, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, being present still the other priests that offer gifts according to the law, (who serve as an example and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed unto thee in the mount);
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Needing to make atonement for his own sins
But into the second the high priest went alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for his own ignorance, and for that of the people:
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who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those that are in error; for he himself is also compassed with weakness.
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For it was expedient that we have such a high priest, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens, who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's; for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, has made perfect a Son forever.
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Entering into holiest every year
But into the second the high priest went alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for his own ignorance, and for that of the people:
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neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the sanctuary designed for eternal redemption.
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nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own);
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The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Being made without an oath
And even more, inasmuch as it is not without an oath (for the others indeed without an oath were made priests, but this one with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec); by so much better testament is Jesus made surety.
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Not being able to continue
And the others, truly, were many priests because they were not able to continue by reason of death: but this man, because he continues forever, has the intransmissible priesthood.