actually held the office, and who had the right to enter into the holy of holies, but to his deputy, and to those who had held the office but who had retired from it, and perhaps also the name was given to the head of each one of the twenty-four courses or classes into which the priests were divided; comp. Notes, Luke 1:5; Matt. 26:3. The name “great high priest” would designate him who actually held the office, and was at the head of all the other priests; and the idea here is, not merely that the