So also Christ Rather, "So even the Christ." Jesus, the Messiah, the true Anointed Priest, possessed both these qualifications.

glorified not himself He has already called the High Priesthood "an honour," but of Christ's Priesthood he uses a still stronger word "glory" (Hebrews 2:9; John 12:28; John 13:31).

but he that said unto him God glorified Him, and the writer again offers the admitted Messianic Prophecies of Psalms 2:7; Psalms 110:4, as a sufficient illustration of this. The fact of His Sonship demonstrates that His call to the Priesthood was a call of God. "Jesus said If I honour myself, my honour is nothing; it is my Father that honoureth me, of whom ye say that He is your God," John 8:54.

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