cer~inonial by which might be set forth, by the best means attainable at the time, s~mething as to w:bat a priest, an offering and an approach to God, ought to be. The very defects of the priest taken from among men emphasize the need of something immeasurably better. Sinful men should be able to sympathize with sinful men; but, as a matter of fact, they very frequently are unable to do tbis even in the most qualified way. They can sympathize i:n a measure with sickness, with temporal calamity; but too often for sin, for crime, for vice, they have nothing but denunciation with respect to men. There is a hint to us bow we should recollect that the greater sinner a man iil, the greater is his need for human sympathy. II. THE PEBFECTIO!r OF PRIESTLY QUALITIES FOUND IN CHRIST. In l,im there is all the true priest needs. He is attracted, not by the strong side of human nature, but by the weak. Easy is it to be drawn to men in the hours of their full life, in their prime, when they are strong for action either of body or of mind; and it is pleasant to look at the results of all their effort. But it is much better, difficult though it be, to look at. man in his hours of weakness and need; for it is out of the midst of his weakness that his highest strength is to be attained. And so Jesus was drawn to men in their weak- ness. He came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to minister to those who really needed ministry, We do not serve rightly when we serve those who are quite able to do things for themselves. Thill is only to increase the indolence of the world. Christ comes to give the help that but for his coming could not be given. He sympathizes with us in all weakness, in poverty, in sickness, in feebleness of body and harassing circumstances. But his sympathy is specially with us in temptation. He was tempted in all points like as we are, i.e. his temptation was a real thing; and the temptation he had to suffer was one suited to the peculiarities of his position and bis work. We are to think here, not so much of his experiences in the wilderness, as of Gethsemane (eh. v. 7). The temptations of the wilderness he saw through at once; they must have been very clumsy artifices in his eye. But GethlemanA tried him. 'fhe pure gold went into the furnace there that its pnrity might be made manifest. And thus it WIIJI shown that he was without a sin. The more we are made to feel our own sin, the more our hearts nre revealed, the closer we are drawn to him who has no sin, nnd who shows us that sin is no essential part of human nature. III. THE PBA0rICAL RESULT OF THESE CONSIDERATIONS. We are to make full use of the Priest thus provided-a Priest not of our finding or our making. He has not come by some process of selection and training employed by men, but is of Divine nppnint- mont; an Apostle from the throne of grace, beseeching us to accept him as the sufficient lutcrpreter of human needs and human penitence. Our attitude is to be one of approach to the throne of grace, thinking of it as such; thiuking of the severities of God au,l the ponal aspects of law as only grace in disgui~e. Chasti~ement, punishment, pain, nre but ,grnce not understood. We must have boldness, freeness, a strong 11enso of the ri~ht given us to approach the throne of grace. We must have a eon~o of how Gm! wi.Jl treat us. He will not only put us into a better state, but do it ln a most compassionate and tender way. It is conceivable that a physician might perfectly c11re a sick person, yet do it all like a machine, without any manifestation of heart, without a single kind or cheering word.-Y.
EXPOSITION, all reepeota folfl.le it. And thoa the full OHAPTER V. exposition of Obrist'& benvenly priosthood THE PBIEBTlJOOD 01' CHBIST. above that of Aaron la proparod for. llut The purpose of the first pnrt of this this full exposition ia still not entered on c'.Ulpler (verd. 1-10) is to corrobornte the till after an exhortation (beginning at eh. p,isition arrived at in the conelusion of v. 11), longer and more earnest than any eh. iv., viz. that we have in Christ a trne former one, el\llcd for by the slowness of J-1 igh Priest su fficicnt for nil our needs. the Hebrew Obristiane to appruhend the 'l'hie is dona, by aunl~zing the conception of doctrino. It is at h-n~th tal:on np aud a high priest, nnd observing that Curist in carried out in eh. vii. 136 'l'HE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. [OH, V, 1-14-,