Priesthood HEBREWS V11. ed tithes in Abra-1 ham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his fa A. D. 64. g ver. 18, 19. ch. 8. 7. of Christ. ment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifieth, art a Priest ther, when Melchise- h Is. 11. 1.Thou dec met him. 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priest-i hood, (for under it the people received k the law,) what further need was there that 1 another Priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the or-+ der of Aaron? Ma. 1.3. Lu. 3. 33. ch. 5. 6. 10. Ga. 4. 9. & 8. 3. it was the Ga. 3. 24. ch. 6. 18. & 8.6. 12 For the priest-bringing in. hood being changed, there is made of ne-m cessity a change also of the law. n ch. 4. 16. Ro. 5. 2. Ep. 2. 18. & 3. 12. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which out swearOr, withno man gave attend-ing of an ance at the altar. oath. 14 For it is evident o Ps. 110, 4. that h our Lord sprang p ch. 8. 6. out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake See the nothing concerning Marginal priesthood. rendering. ver. 19 to introduce 15 And it is yet far The design of more evident: for the law was that after the simili- the Gospel, tude of Melchisedec with all its there ariseth another hopes; Priest, which the 16 Who is made, but could not law typified, not after the law of a fulfil. carnal command for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before fork the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, t but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which n we draw nigh unto God. 20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made Priest: 21 (For those Priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, " The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec :) 22 By so much was p Jesus made a surety of a better testament. were 23 And they truly were many Priests, because they not suffered to continue by reason of death: Christ's priesthood HEBREWS VIII. unchangeable. 24 But this man, be- A. D. 64. Jan High Priest, a who cause he continueth is set on the right ever, hath an un-t Or, which hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; changeable hood. priest-passeth not 25 Wherefore he is q ch. 9. 24. Or, able also to save evermore. them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing! he ever liveth a to make intercession for r ch. 4. 15. them. Ep. 1. 20. & 4. 10. 26 For such an High Priest became t us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, u separate from sinners, and s made higher y ch. 5. 1, 2. than the heavens; z ch. 2. 10. & 5.9. Gr. 27 Who needeth not daily, as those High Priests, to offer up perfected. sacrifice, t first for a Ep. 1. 20. his own sins, and Col. 3. 1. then for the people's: ++ Or, of for this he did once, holy things. when he offered up b ch. 9.8.12. himself. 24. 2 A minister ++ of the b sanctuary, and of © the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3 Ford every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a Priest, seing that there I are Priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadowf of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: g for, See, saith he, that thou make all Or, they things according to fch. 9. 23.thee in the mount. the pattern shewed to 28 For the law e ch. 9. 11. maketh y men High a ch. 5. 1. Priests which have e Ep. 5. 2. infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, Col. 2. 17. who z who is conse-g Ex. 25. 40. crated for evermore. are Priests. & 26. 30. Nu. 8. 4. CHAP. VIII. Ac. 7. 44. 1 Now of the h 2 Co. 3. 6. things which we have spoken this is the $$ Or, sum: We have such testament. 9. 6 But now h hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better 65 covenant, which was established upon better promises. The old covenant 7 HEBREWS IX. For if that first A. D. 64. covenant faultless, then should i ch. 7. 11. 9 Not according to the covenant that p 2 Co. 5. 17. I made with their Or, cerefathers in the day monies. when I took them a Ex. 25. 8. by the hand to lead b Ex. 26. 1. them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and 1 regarded them not, saith the Lord. c Ex. 26. 35. & 40. 4. d Ex. 25. 31. abolished. know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 P In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. CHAP. IX. 1 THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a a worldly sanctuary. 2 b For there was a tabernacle made; the wherein was e Ex. 25. 23. first, 30. Le. 24, 5, 6. thed candlestick, and the table, and the 10 For this is the tt Or, holy shewbread; which is f ch. 6. 19. Ex. 26. 31. 33. g & 40. 3. 21. Ex. 25. 10. Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts and m I will h Ex. 16. 33. be to them a God, i Nu. 17. 10. and they shall be to k Ex. 25. 16. me a people : 21. 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall called ++the sanctuary. 3 f And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the g ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was b the golden pot that had manna, and i Aaron's rod that budded, and the k tables of the covenant; Inferiority of HEBREWS IX. 1 Ex. 25. 18. Le. 16. 2. legal sacrifices 5 Andover it the A. D. 64. them until the time of cherubims of glory reformation. shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 1 Ki. 8.6,7. m Nu 28. 3. n Ex. 30. 10. 11 But Christ being come an High Priest of y good things to Da. 8. 11. Come, z by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building 6 Now when these things were thus ordained, m the Priests ch. 7. 27. went always into the P ch. 10. 19. first tabernacle, ac- q Jno. 14. 6. complishing the serr Ga. 3. 21. vice of God. b Ac. 20. 28. 1 Pe. 1. 19. s Le. 11. 2. 7 But into the set Nu. 19.7. cond went the High u Ep. 2. 15. Priest alone n once Col. 2. 20. every year, not with- t Or, rites, out blood, which he or, ceremo offered for himself, nies. and for the errors of x ch. 3. 1. the people: y ch. 10. 1. 8P The Holy Ghost z ch. 8. 2. this signifying, that a ch. 10. 4. the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first ta-e Ze. 3. 9. bernacle was yet d Da. 9. 24. standing: e Le. 16. 14. 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which 8 Re. 1. 5. were offered both h 1 Pe. 3. 18. gifts and sacrifices, i Ep. 2. 5. that could not make 1 Or, fault. him that did the ser-k ch. 1. 3. vice perfect, as per-1 ch. 6. I. taining to the con-m Lu. 1. 74. science; Re. 5. 9. f Nu. 19. 2. n 1 Ti. 2. 5. o ch. 8. 6. 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, p 1 Pe. 3. 19. carnal + ordi 9 ch. 3. 1. nances, imposed on and u 12 Neither a by the blood of goats and calves, but b by his own blood he entered in c once into the holy place, d having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit of fered himself without spott to God, k purge your conscience from dead works m to serve the living God! 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, P that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, q they to that HEBREWS IX. A. D. 64. which are called 17 For a testament 18 Whereupon nei-y ther the first testament was I dedicated without blood. Or, purple. Ex. 24. 8. Le. 8. 15. b ch. 6. 20. & 16.14,15, 19 For when Moses 16. 18, 19. had spoken every z Le. 17. 11. precept to all the a ch. 8. 5. people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats," with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, d of Christ. and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary that a the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For b Christ is not entered into the holy places made the with hands, which are in 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the High Priest entereth into the holy place every 1 Jno.2. 1. year with blood of others; ch. 7. 25. Ro. 8. 34. e ver. 7. f ver. 12. ch. 7, 27. & 10. 10. 20 Saying, This is 1 Pe. 3.18. the blood of the tes-1 Co. 10.11. tament which God hath injoined unto you. 21 Moreover y he sprinkled with blood i both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; h Ga. 4. 4. Ge. 3. 19. 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once f g in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 h And as it is appointed unto men once to die, i but 1 Pe.3. 18. after this the judg k Ro. 6. 10. 11 Pe. 2. 24. 1 Joo. 3. 5. ment: 28 Sok Christ was once i offered to bear |