GH-PRIEST._

"Having then a great High-priest, Who hath passed through the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For
we have not a high-priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities; but One that hath been in all points tempted like
as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness
unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find
grace to help us in time of need. For every high-priest, being taken
from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can bear
gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is
compassed with infirmity; and by reason thereof is bound, as for the
people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. And no man taketh
the honour unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was
Aaron. So Christ also glorified not Himself to be made a
High-priest, but He that spake unto Him,

Thou art My Son,
This day have I begotten Thee:

as He saith also in another place,

Thou art a Priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek.

Who in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to
save Him from death, and having been heard for His godly fear,
though He was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which He
suffered; and having been made perfect, He became unto all them that
obey Him the Author of eternal salvation; named of God a High-priest
after the order of Melchizedek."--HEB. iv. 14-v. 10 (R.V.)

The results already gained are such as these: that the Son, through Whom
God has spoken unto us, is a greater Person than the angels; that Jesus,
Whom the Apostle and the Hebrew Christians acknowledge to be Son of God,
is the representative Man, endowed, as such, with kingly authority; that
the Son of God became man in order that He might be constituted
High-priest to make reconciliation for sin; and, finally, that all the
purposes of God revealed in the Old Testament, though they have hitherto
been accomplished but partially, will not fall to the ground, and will
remain in higher forms under the Gospel.

The writer gathers these threads to a head in chap. iv. 14. The
high-priest still remains. If we have the high-priest, we have all