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414 Hebrews V. 1.
merely intimated in chap. ii. 17, and chap. iv. 14. And thus we are
convinced that chap. iv. 14^-16 forms in reality the conclusion of the
second principal i)art, in like manner as chap. ii. 17, 18 that of the
first part, and that the true and proper commencement of the third
part is to be placed at chap. v. 1.
We infer also from what has just been said, that the third part
is, as a whole, parallel in its arrangement with the two first parts.
It, too, falls into two sections (1, chap. v. 1-10, similarity between
Christ and Aaron ;
2, dissimilarity between Christ and Aaron, similarity
with Melchisedec), and here also, these two sections are
markedly separated from each other by an admonitory i)iece inserted
between them (chap. v. 11—vi. 20). That this hortatory
piece in the third part is longer and fuller than in the two first
parts can create no surprise. Already was that of the second part
(extending from the 7th to the 19th verse of chap. 3) longer than
that of the first part (chap. ii. 1-4); in this third part it extends to
twenty-four verses, and thus shews itself even outwardly as the last
part of an admonition, which from its commencement onwards,
gradually becomes more urgent and more full. But in its internal
character also, as we shall see, it stands in very close connexion
with the chapter which follows. And a longer resting-place was
necessary before this seventh chapter, not merely on account of the
greater difficulty of its
contents, but chiefly also because chap. vii.
does not connect immediately with chap. v. 10, but at once points
back to the train of thought in chaps, i.—ii., iii.—iv., and weaves
into an ingenious web all the threads formerly laid down. Chap,
vii. is not merely the second section of the third part, but forms at
once the key-stone of the first and second parts, and the basis of
the fourth part (the argument that the sanctuary into which Christ
entered is the true sanctuary, of which the Old Testament temple
and worship were only a type). Nay, the seventh chapter may thus
be said to form properly the kernel and central point of the whole
epistle.
SECTION FIRST.
CHRIST AND AARON.
(v. 1-10.)
Ver 1. Tap is not argumentative, but explicative, and introduces
the exposition of the theme intimated in iv. 14-16, to the
closer consideration and laying to heart of which a charge was implicitly
given in ver IG.—Other interpreters have understood ydp as