Tuesday 17-09-2024

Tuesday 17-09-2024
Christ, High Priest in the True Sanctuary, superseding the Levitical Priesthood-The
New renders Obsolete the Old Covenant. (72) Heb. 8: 1-13
The apostle had demonstrated that He was to be a priest, and that he was to be, not
of the Levitical order, but of the order of Melchizedek. In the prosecution of this, he
(1) states the sum or principal point of the whole matter under discussion-that the
priesthood of Christ was real and permanent, while that of the Hebrew economy was
typical, and was destined in its own nature to be temporary: vv. 1-3. (2) There was a
fitness and propriety of His being removed to heaven to perform the functions of His
office there-since if He had remained on earth, He could not have officiated as
priest, that duty being by the law of Moses entrusted to others pertaining to another
tribe: vv. 4, 5. (3). Christ had obtained a more exalted ministry than the Jewish
priests held, because He was the Mediator in a better covenant-a covenant that
related rather to the heart than to external observances: vv. 6-13” Albert Barnes. “In
chapter 7 it is the excellency of our High Priest’s person which is demonstrated; here
in Hebrews 8 it is His ministry which is contemplated…