And made us kings and priests unto God.

The Revision translates, "Made us. kingdom, priests unto his God and Father;" made us. kingdom of priests, which is probably the true idea. In this kingdom of Christ every man is. priest and can attend to priestly ditties. He needs no Jewish or Catholic priest to offer sacrifices for him, or to shrive him. He can go directly to God without the intervention of the priest and is competent to all priestly duties. In this kingdom of priests there can be no priestly caste which takes precedence of the rest. Peter evidently has the same thought when he speaks (1 Peter 2:9) of. "royal priesthood," yet the Papacy has made Peter the head of the greatest system of priestcraft that the world has ever known.

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