Hebrews 8:3

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. FOR - Reason for calling Him "minister of the sanctuary" (). SOMEWHAT. He does not offer again His once for all completed sacrifice. But as the high priest did not enter the holy place without blood, so Christ has entered the heavenly Holy place with His own blood, as the oblation which He has to offer before God. That "blood of sprinkling" is in heaven; and is thence made effectual to sprinkle believers as the end of their election (). 'Consecrate' as a priest, is literally to fill the hand, implying that an offering is given into the priest's hands, which he is to present to God....

3._For every high priest, etc. _The Apostle intends to show, that Christ’s priesthood cannot coexist with the Levitical priesthood. He proves it in this way, — “The Law appointed priests to offer sacrifices to God; it hence appears that the priesthood is an empty name without a sacrifice. But Christ had no sacrifice, such as was offered under the Law; it hence follows, that his priesthood is not earthly or carnal, but one of a more excellent character.” Let us now examine every clause. The first thing that deserves notice, is that which he teaches that no priest is appointed except to offer gifts; it is hence evident, that no favor from God can be obtained for men except through the interposition of a sacrifice. Hence, that our prayers may be heard, they must be founded on a sacrifice; their audacity, therefore, is altogether pernicious and fatal, who pass by Christ and forget his death,...

1-6 The substance, or summary, of what had been declared was, that Christians had such a High Priest as they needed. He took upon himself human nature, appeared on earth, and there gave himself as a sacrifice to God for the sins of his people. We must not dare to approach God, or to present any thing to him, but in and through Christ, depending upon his merits and mediation; for we are accepted only in the Beloved. In all obedience and worship, we should keep close to God's word, which is the only and perfect standard. Christ is the substance and end of the law of righteousness. But the covenant here referred to, was that made with Israel as a nation, securing temporal benefits to them. The promises of all spiritual blessings, and of eternal life, revealed in the gospel, and made sure through Christ, are of infinitely greater value. Let us bless God that we have a High Priest that suits...

Verse Hebrews 8:3. _EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS ORDAINED_] καθισταται, _Is set_ _apart_, for this especial work. _GIFTS AND SACRIFICES_] δωρα τε και θυσιας. _Eucharistic_ offerings, and _sacrifices for sin_. By the _former_, God's government of the universe, and his benevolence to his creatures in providing for their support, were acknowledged. By the _latter_, the destructive and ruinous nature of sin, and the necessity of an atonement, were confessed. _WHEREFORE-OF NECESSITY_] If Christ be a high priest, and it be essential to the office of a high priest to offer atoning sacrifices to God, Jesus must offer such. Now it is manifest that, as he is the _public minister_, officiating in the _true_ _tabernacle_ as high priest, he must make an atonement; and his being at the right hand of the

FOR EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS ORDAINED TO OFFER GIFTS AND SACRIFICES - This is a general statement about the functions of the high priest. It was the uniqueness of the office; it constituted its essence, that some gift or sacrifice was to be presented. This was indisputable in regard to the Jewish high priest, and this is involved in the nature of the priestly office everywhere. A “priest” is one who offers sacrifice, mainly in behalf of others. The principles involved in the office are: (1)That there is need that some offering or atonement should be made for sin; and, (2)That there is a fitness or propriety that some one should be designated to do it. If this idea that a priest must offer sacrifice be correct, then it follows that the name priest should not be given to any one who is not appointed

EXPOSITION THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST FULFILS THE SYMBOLISM OF THE AARONIC, AND IS ALONE AN ETERNAL REALITY. Christ's heavenly priesthood, shown above to be of a higher order than that of Aaron, destined to supersede it, is in this section of the Epistle (as intimated in the concluding verses of Hebrews 7:1) set forth in full as the reality foreshadowed by it. The two priesthoods are compared with respect to (1) their spheres, (2) their functions, (3) their effects; and, in the course of the exposition, the two c

FOR EVERY HIGH PRIEST IS ORDAINED TO OFFER GIFTS AND SACRIFICES,.... Hebrews 5:1 WHEREFORE IT IS OF NECESSITY THAT THIS MAN HAVE SOMEWHAT ALSO TO OFFER; or this person; for the word "man" is not in the text, and seems not so proper a word to be supplied, since it was his human nature that it was necessary he should have to offer; he was a person, and existed as a divine person antecedent to his assumption of human nature: as God, he had nothing to offer, or that was capable of being offered; something to offer as a sacrifice was necessary to him as a priest, but not any thing was proper to him; Levitical sacrifices would not do, these could not take away sin; besides, the great high priest was not of the tribe of Levi, nor of the order of Aaron, and therefore could not offer these. An angelic nature would have been improper, that is not capable of dying; and the offering up o

CHAPTER 8 _ 1. Christ, the High Priest (Hebrews 8:1)_ 2. The old covenant and the new (Hebrews 8:7) Hebrews 7:1 The new priesthood which the better priest exerciseth in heaven furthermore implies also a change in the sacrifices and in the covenant. This is now more fully developed in the last three Chapter s of this section. There is first of all a summary. The priest we have is not ministering on earth but “we have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man.” Every high priest had to offer gifts and sacrifices, so it was of necessity that He also shoul

HEBREWS 8:1 TO HEBREWS 10:18. The greatness of the High Priest has now been sufficiently proved, and the writer proceeds to demonstrate the _greatness of His ministry._ This section constitutes the heart of the epistle, as we are expressly told in the opening verse. The point to which the whole discourse has been leading up (Hebrews 8:1) is this, that Jesus, having taken His place at God's right hand, exercises His ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. He acts as High Priest in that eternal tabernacle of which the earthly one was only the shadow and symbol (Hebrews 8:2)....

The pith of what we are saying is this--it is just such a high priest we possess, a priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens, a high priest who is a minister of the sanctuary and of the real tabernacle, which the Lord, and not man, founded. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. It is therefore necessary that he should have something which he might offer. If then he had been upon earth, lie would not even have been a priest, for there already exist those who offer the gifts the law lays down, men whose service is but a shadowy outline of the heavenly order, just as Moses received instructions when he was about to complete the tabernacle--"See," it says, "that you do everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." But, as things are, he has obtained a more excellent ministry, in so far as...