atoning work in heaven for His people now. As Bishop Lightfoot declares, “The only priests under the Gospel are the saints, the members of the Christian brotherhood.”1 That the priesthood of Christ could not be Aaronic, the Apostle impresses on the Jewish mind by pointing to the fact that “our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.” And the truth in question is made “still more evident,” he adds, by the fact that the Lord’s priesthood was divinely declared
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