Verse 26
26. Such a high priest became us Is he not, in the power of his sacrifice and the perpetuity of his intercession, just the high priest we human sinners need?
Holy… sinners A beautiful delineation of the sinlessness of Jesus, an ideal so perfectly maintained throughout the New Testament.
It was an ideal above the powers of the writers or of the age to fabricate. It was impressed upon the mind of the Church, in the fulness of its beauty, by the living, divine Reality himself. Thus perfect it became him to be, as our ultimate model; but here, especially, it is commemorated as the condition of the perfectness of his expiation, as shown next verse.
Higher than the heavens Note on Ephesians 4:10. However perfect his human character, it would not avail could he not appear in heaven for us.
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