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4And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

Hebrews 5:4

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-9)

We have here an account of the nature of the priestly office in general, though with an accommodation to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are told, I. Of what kind of beings the high priest must be. He must be taken from among men; he must be a man, one of ourselves, bone of our bones, flesh of our flesh, and spirit of our spirits, a partaker of our nature, and a standard-bearer among ten thousand. This ...

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