BECAUSE HE IS THE TYPE OF AN UNDYING PRIEST

8. καὶ ὧδε. As things now are; while the Levitic priesthood still continues.

ἀποθνήσκοντες ἄνθρωποι, “weak dying men”—men who are under liability to die (comp. Hebrews 7:23), as in the lines

“He preached as one who ne’er should preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.”

The word ἄνθρωποι implies men in their mortal frailty.

ὅτι ζῇ, i.e. he stands as a living man on the eternal page of Scripture, and no word is said about his death; so far then as the letter of Scripture is concerned he stands in a perpetuity of mystic life. This is the THIRD point of superiority.

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