Deuteronomy 33:8

Deu. 33:8. Here Christ is evidently called Levi's "holy one." Aaron, the high priest of that tribe, was Levi's holy one in some sense; but it was not Aaron but Christ that was tempted at Massah and Meribah. (1 Corinthians 10:9). Moses was of that tribe, and might also be called their holy one; but neither was he the person there tempted, yea, both Moses and Aaron there rather concurred in the temptation (Numbers 20:10-13); and the great antitype of Moses and Aaron, the true High Priest, that was the substance and end of all the ancient sacrifices and offerings, and of all the peculiar ministrations of the high priest of the tribe of Levi, according to Jeremiah 33:17-22. Christ may well be called Levi's "holy one;" for it is there represented as though the great honour and privilege of Levi, in its having the office of the priesthood, should be upheld and completed in Christ. For all the honour and privilege which there ever was in having the priesthood of their tribe, arose from the relation of that priesthood to Christ, and the glorious things which He should accomplish in His sacrifice and intercession, and the eternal benefits He should procure; and therefore the actually existing and appearing of Christ, the great and true High Priest, and actually accomplishing those glorious things, and procuring those eternal benefits, are the sum and substance and perfection of all the honour and privilege which belonged to their office. And therefore this is properly mentioned in Moses's blessing of this tribe. For it shows this privilege above all other things, inasmuch as herein it appears that their priesthood was no vain thing. It was unspeakably valuable, and of infinitely good effect, as it stood in relation to the priesthood of Christ, and should be brought to its glorious and infinitely blessed effect in Him. It was by the Thummim and Urim that the high priest was especially furnished with to enter into the holy of holies, to make atonement and intercession for the people there once a year, and was enabled to teach the people, and reveal the mind and will of God to them. But this typical Thummim and Urim were nothing but as they relate to and were typical of the perfections, merits, light, and glory that were in Christ. In Christ having this perfection, glory, and merit, and this sufficiency to be the light of the world, Levi's Thummim and Urim were fulfilled, and so honoured and magnified. That spoken of and promised concerning the priests, the Levites, in Jeremiah 33:17-22, is manifestly the chief of all blessings of God's Covenant with that tribe; as that which was promised in the first place concerning the house of David is the chief thing promised in God's Covenant with David, which is a thing that much confirms that this is the great thing here intended in Moses's blessing of this tribe.