Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 8:3
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Hebrews8:3
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices : wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer .
In Christ's Administration for his in Heaven; as he is a King, so he is a High-Priest; and as such must have Service and Ministration sutable to himself there, as the Aaronical High-Priests had on Earth: Every of which was constituted to stand and minister at God's Altar, and were to offer Sacrifices and Gifts, as cleared before, ch. 5.1.
Seeing these earthly Priests had such Service, it would fol[illegible: 1 letter]ow thence, if he were earthly and of their Order, he should need such too. [non-Latin text not transcribed] having no Verb expresly joyned to it, is variously supplied: Some, by it is; but those who would make the Tabernacle his Body, do not allow it, that being offered before this, and therefore add, it was, or hath been: but it is best supplied potentially, it would be necessary for this High-Priest, if he were so low as those Priests, to have something of the like nature or kind of Gifts, and Sacrifices, that he might offer as they did. Now such he needed not as being utterly inconsistent with his Priesthood, as is proved after.
Marginal references: Eph. 5.2.
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