What then should our response be to this mighty champion who in an epic struggle with the devil freed us from the paralyzing fear of death? For modern readers the conclusion in 2:17–18 might almost seem like an anticlimax, since we are not familiar with the figure of a high priest and we are not nearly as obsessed with the dangers of temptation as first-century Jews and Christians were. The great achievement on our behalf by Jesus, the Great High Priest, is that through his death and exaltation he