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Qualifications for High Priesthood

1 For every high priest taken from among men ais appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.  
2 He can1 have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to aweakness.  
3 Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for ahimself, to offer sacrifices for sins.  
4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as aAaron was.  

A Priest Forever

5 aSo also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:
b“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.”  
6 As He also says in another place:
a“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”;  
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had aoffered up prayers and supplications, bwith vehement cries and tears to Him cwho was able to save Him from death, and was heard dbecause of His godly fear,  
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Hebrews 5:2

Who can have compassion - Margin, "Reasonably bear with." The idea is that of "sympathizing with." The high priest is taken from among men, in order that he may have a fellow-feeling for those on whose behalf he officiates. Sensible of his own ignorance, he is able to sympathize with those who are ignorant; and compassed about with infirmity, he is able to succour those who have like infirmities.

And on them that are out of the way - The erring, and the guilty. If he were taken from an order of beings superior to people, be would be less qualified to sympathize with those who felt that they were sinners, and who needed pardon.

For that he himself also is compassed with infirmity - see chap. Hebrews 7:28. He is liable to err; He is subject to temptation; he must die, and appear before God - and encompassed with these infirmities, he is better qualified to minister in behalf of guilty and dying people. For the same reason it is, that the ministers of the gospel are chosen from among people. They are of like passions with others. They are sinners; they are dying men. They can enter into the feelings of those who are conscious of guilt; they can sympathize with those who tremble in dread of death; they can partake of the emotions of those who expect soon to appear before God.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Hebrews 5:2:

Zechariah 3:2
Hebrews 5:7

 

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