The
Author of Eternal Salvation!
Hebrews
5
"For
every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men
in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts
and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those who
are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject
to weakness. Because of this he is required as for the people,
so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. And no
man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God,
just as Aaron was.
"So
also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest,
but it was He who said to Him: 'You are My Son, today I have
begotten You" (Psalm 2:7).
"As
He also says in another place: 'You are a priest forever according
to the order of Melchizedek" (Psalm 110:4), who in the
days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications,
with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save
Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though
He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which
He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author
of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, called by God a
High Priest 'according to the order of Melchizedek,"
of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you
have become dull of hearing.
"For
though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone
to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of
God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For
everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word
of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs
to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason
of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and
evil.
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