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οὐχ ἑαυτὸν ἐδόξασε γενηθῆναι ἀρχιερέα, ἀλλ᾽ 6 λαλήσας πρὸς αὐτὸν,
᾽ “Vids μου εἶ σὺ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε””" ἑτέρῳ λέγει, ““ Σὺ ἱερεὺς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδέκ ᾿᾿.
Joan. νι, 54; Acts xiii. 33.
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tion of the stop at the end of νετ. 2. The law which enjoined that the high priest should on the Day of Atonement sacri- fice for himself and his house (ἐξιλάσεται περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ) before he sacrificed περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ, is given in Lev. xvi. 6, 15.
Ver 4. καὶ οὐχ ἑαυτῷ τις λαμβάνει τὴν τιμήν ‘And no one taketh to himself this honourable office.”’ καί introduces second qualification of the priest, implied in καθίσταται of ver. 1, but now emphasised. An additional reason for
trusting in the priest is that he Μας ποῖ. assumed {με office to gratify his own.
ambition but to serve God’s purpose of
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genuine priesthood is the carrying out of God’s will. The priest must above all else ωρα να sympathy with God as well as in-syfmpathy with man. God’s appointment also secures that the suitable qualifications will be found in the priest. The office is here called τιμή, best translated by the German ‘‘ Ehrenamt ” or ‘‘ Ehrenstelle.” For τιμή meaning an office see Eurip., Helena, 15 ; Herodot., ii. 65, Wats παρὰ πατρὸς ἐκδέκεται τὴν τιμήν ; and especially Aristotle, Pol., 111. 10, τιμὰς γὰρ λέγομεν εἶναι τὰς ἀρχάς. ‘Cf. Hor. i. 1, 8 “" tergeminis honoribus ”. Frequently in Josephus τιμή is used of the high priesthood, see Antiq., xii. 2-5, iv. I, etc. ; and the same writer should be consulted for the historical illustration of this verse (Απίΐ., iii. 8-1). In this remarkable passage he represents Moses as saying ἔγωγε . . . ἐμαυτὸν ἂν τῆς τιμῆς ἄξιον ἔκρινα... νῦν δ᾽ αὐτὸς 6 Θεὸς ᾿Ααρῶνα τῆς τιμῆς ταύτης ἄξιον ἔκρινε. The nolo episcopari implied in the words is amply illustrated in the case of Augustine, of John Knox, and especi- ally of Anselm who declared he would rather have been cast on a stack of blazing faggots than set on the archie- piscopal throne, and continued to head his letters ‘‘ Brother Anselm monk of Bec by choice, Archbishop of Canterbury by violence”. On the other hand, see the account of the appointment by his own act (αὐτόχειρ) of the priest king in
Aricia, in Strabo ν. 3-12 and elsewhere. ἀλλὰ καλούμενος . . . καθώσπερ καὶ ᾿Ααρών. “πὰς when called by God as in point of fact even Aaron was”. If the article is retained before καλ. we must translate “ but he that is called,” καλούμε- vos ‘in diesem amtlichen Sinne nur hier,” says Weiss, but see Matt. iv. 21, Gal. 1. 15. For Aaron's call, see Exod. xxvili. 1 ft. Schottgen and Wetstein appositely quote from the Bammidbar Rabi: ““ Moses said to Korah and his associates:—If my brother Aaron took to himself the priest- hood, then ye did well to rebel against him; but in truth God gave it to him, whose is the greatness and the power and the glory. Whosoever, then, rises against Aaron, does he not rise against God?” It is notorious that the contemporary priesthood did not fulfil the description here given.
“Ver. 5. οὕτω καὶ 6 Χριστὸς. . . . “50 even the Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest.” [‘‘So hat auch der Christus nicht sich selbst die Herrlichkeit des Hohenpriestertums zugeeignet,’’ Weizsdcker.] The desig- nation, ‘‘the Christ,’ is introduced, because it might not have seemed so significant a statement if made of ‘«Jesus”’. It was not personal ambition that moved Christ. He did not come in His own name, nor did He seek to glorify Himself. See John viii. 54; v. 31, 433 xvii. 5, and passim. ἀλλ᾽ ὁ λαλήσας . .. Μελχισεδέκ. “but He [glorified Him to be made a priest] who said, Thou art My Son, I this day have begotten Thee; as also in another place He says, Thou art a priest for ever after the order Melchizedek”’. The question here is: Why does the writer introduce the quotation from_the_