grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” (2:6, 7) On the other hand, we must never forget Yeshua is fully man and was “tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin” (Heb. 2:17, 18; 4:15) Yeshua, being fully human and fully divine, perfectly fulfilled the mediation role foreshadowed by the High Priest: “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Messiah Yeshua” (1 Tim. 2:5). He alone could enter the
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