Hebrews 5:1-4
THE AUTHORITY OF CHRIST, OUR HIGH PRIEST. Christ competent to be our High Priest:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AUTHORITY OF CHRIST, OUR HIGH PRIEST. Christ competent to be our High Priest:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERY HIGH PRIEST TAKEN FROM AMONG MEN IS ORDAINED FOR MEN IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD THAT HE MAY OFFER BOTH GIFTS AND SACRIFICES FOR SINS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO CAN HAVE COMPASSION ON THE IGNORANT, AND ON THEM THAT ARE OUT OF THE WAY, FOR THAT HE HIMSELF ALSO IS COMPASSED WITH INFIRMITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BY REASON HEREOF HE OUGHT, AS FOR THE PEOPLE, SO ALSO FOR HIMSELF, TO OFFER FOR SINS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NO MAN TAKETH THIS HONOR UNTO HIMSELF BUT HE THAT IS CALLED OF GOD, AS WAS AARON. The last paragraph of chapter 4 serves as an introduction to a long discourse on Christ's office as our High Priest. As Christ was infinitely superior in person and office to the angels and to Moses, so also He is... [ Continue Reading ]
SO ALSO CHRIST GLORIFIED NOT HIMSELF TO BE MADE AN HIGH PRIEST, BUT HE THAT SAID UNTO HIM, THOU ART MY SON, TODAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PERFECT SALVATION EARNED BY CHRIST:... [ Continue Reading ]
AS HE SAITH ALSO IN ANOTHER PLACE, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, WHEN HE HAD OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS WITH STRONG CRYING AND TEARS UNTO HIM THAT WAS ABLE TO SAVE HIM FROM DEATH, AND WAS HEARD IN THAT HE FEARED;... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH HE WERE A SON, YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEING MADE PERFECT, HE BECAME THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION UNTO ALL THEM THAT OBEY HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED OF GOD AN HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. That the first qualification of a high priest was found in Christ, the writer had shown at the end of chapter 4, namely, that He was touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Here it is shown that also the second attribute of a high pri... [ Continue Reading ]
Of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.... [ Continue Reading ]
A REPROOF OF SPIRITUAL IGNORANCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN FOR THE TIME YE OUGHT TO BE TEACHERS, YE HAVE NEED THAT ONE TEACH YOU AGAIN WHICH BE THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD, AND ARE BECOME SUCH AS HAVE NEED OF MILK AND NOT OF STRONG MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERY ONE THAT USETH MILK IS UNSKILLFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; FOR HE IS A BABE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGETH TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE, EVEN THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. According to the tendency of the last passage, we might now expect a complete discussion of the high-priesthood of Christ to begin at this point. Instead... [ Continue Reading ]