Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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FOURTH SECTION.-iv. 14-v. 10.
Jesus our High Priest more than Aaron.
XXXIV.
A GREAT HIGH PRIEST.
IV.—14. Having, tlaen,i a great High Priest, who hath passed through the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
After his digression, in the warning to the Hebrews, not, like
their fathers with Moses, to harden their hearts through unbelief,
our writer returns to his argument. He had already twice used
the words High Priest (ii. i6, iii. i), and is preparing the way for
what is the great object of the Epistle—the exposition of the
heavenly priesthood of the Lord Jesus, and the work He has by
it accomplished for us (vii.-x. i8). In this section (iv. 14-v. 10)
he first gives the general characteristics of that priesthood, as
typified by Aaron, and exhibited in our Lord's life here on
earth. In chaps, i. and ii. he had laid the foundation of his
structure in the divinity and the humanity of our Saviour:
he here first speaks of Him in His greatness as a High Priest
passed through the heavens, then in His sympathy and compassion,
as having been tempted like as we are.
Having, therefore, a great High Priest. The therefore
refers to the previous argument, in which Christ's greatness had
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Therefore.