The priesthood and sacrifice of the Son of God, and the pardon procured for sinners thereby, together with the many happy effects of the pardon thus procured, being matters of the greatest importance to mankind, the apostle in this chapter, and in what follows to Hebrews 10:19, hath stated at great... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who can have compassion_ The word μετριοπαθειν, here used, signifies _to feel compassion_ in proportion to the misery of others. The apostle's words imply that a high-priest, who is not touched with a feeling of the weaknesses and miseries of others, is unfit to officiate for them, because he will... [ Continue Reading ]
_And no man_ Who has any regard to duty or safety; _taketh this honour_ This awful office, attended with a high degree of responsibility; _unto himself, but he_ only _that is called of God_ to it; _as was Aaron_ And his posterity, who were all of them called at one and the same time. But it is obser... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who_, &c. The sum of the things treated of in the 7th and following Chapter s, is contained in this paragraph, from Hebrews 5:7, and in this sum is admirably comprised the process of his passion with its inmost causes, in the very terms used by the evangelists. _Who in the days of his flesh_ Those... [ Continue Reading ]
_Though he were a son_ And so, one would have supposed, might have been exempted from suffering; this is interposed, lest any should be offended at all these instances of human weakness; _yet learned he obedience_, &c. Yea, although he was such a son as has been before described, even that Son of Go... [ Continue Reading ]
_And being made perfect_, &c. Many of the difficulties which we meet with in Scripture, are entirely owing to our ignorance: some to our ignorance of the subjects under consideration, and others of the meaning of the terms made use of to express these subjects. This is peculiarly the case here: ther... [ Continue Reading ]
_Called_ Προσαγορευθεις, denominated by God himself, or, as some understand the expression, _openly declared_, namely, in the 110th Psalm, before referred to; _a high-priest after the order of Melchisedec_ Or, according to the constitution of Melchisedec's priesthood, which was a figure and example... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of whom_, &c. The apostle here begins an important digression, wherein he reproves, admonishes, and exhorts the believing Hebrews; _we_ Apostles and other ministers of the word; _have many things to say_ And things of great importance, in order to your full illumination, and perfect acquaintance, w... [ Continue Reading ]