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The New Priestly Service

1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, awho is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,  
2 a Minister of athe sanctuary and of bthe true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.  
3 For aevery high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore bit is necessary that this One also have something to offer.  
4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
5 who serve athe copy and bshadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, c“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”  
6 But now aHe has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a bbetter covenant, which was established on better promises.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 8:3

For—assigning his reason for calling him "minister of the sanctuary" (Hebrews 8:2).

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. That "blood of sprinkling" is in heaven. And is thence made effectual to sprinkle believers as the end of their election (I Peter 1:2). The term "consecrate" as a priest, is literally, to fill the hand, implying that an offering is given into the hands of the priest, which it is his duty to present to God. If a man be a priest, he must have some gift in his hands to offer. Therefore, Christ, as a priest, has His blood as His oblation to offer before God.




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