Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 8:1

1 NOW of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum : We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens .

The Spirit having cleared the Doctrine of the Priesthood of the great Gospel-Minister, now proceeds to shew how he executed that Office; and that therein as he far excelled, so he was to be valued and used before the Aaronical Priests. He introduceth it with a Reflection on his foregoing Discourse, the Sum then of the things spoken, is [non-Latin text not transcribed], some read the Head, i. e. the Scope, in a Discourse driven at, others, the chief of all the Excellencies of the Priesthood hitherto held forth: as if it were palmarium Argumentum, the highest and choicest of all that hitherto had been spoken; and it is proportionably true, as will be seen in what followeth: But it must necessarily joyn the foregoing and following Discourse together, and so it notes a Sum, Contract, or Epitome; a Breviate of the Heads formerly discoursed on and largely, ch. 7. and so shews the dependance of the matter remaining to be handled on what went before, when many things are summed up in a few words. As Christ's Priesthood largely opened before from Psalm 110.4. is, as to the Substance of it, briefly handled in this Verse.

We Paul, and believing Hebrews, opposed to the infidel Iews, have not only a Right to, and Interest in, but actual possession of Christ, God-Man, as our High-Priest, while their infidel Brethren had only a sinful Man: He who hath eminent Power above, and tho crucified by Men, yet thereby became victorious over Sin, Death, and Hell, and the Lord of them the Devil, led Principalities and Powers in triumph, when he past through their Kingdom in the Air, Colos. 2.15. entred into the Heaven of Heavens, and there sate him down and setled himself, as was his Right, on the Right-Hand of God, as he sate on his Throne, invested with all Power and Dignity, as God's Royal Priest, near to him, and the great Manager of all our Concerns with him, while the sinful Priest at Ierusalem stood trembling before the Shadow of this heavenly Temple on Earth, ch. 1.3.

Marginal references: Chap. 10.12. & 12.2.