Chapter 5                               

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  5: • 1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for the sake of humans towards God [as their active connection with God], that he might offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, for all disconnection from God; 2 for he is able to bear gently with and have compassion upon those who are ignorant and wandering away, since he himself is also enclothed with weakness. 3 Through [that weakness], he is obligated to offer sacrifices around sins, even as around the people, so also around himself. 4 And no one takes this honor upon himself, but rather is called by God in the same way Aaron was called.

• 5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but by the One who said concerning Him, “You are My Son, today, I have conceived you” (Psalm 2:7). 6 Even as also in another place He says, “You are a priest into the age, according to the order of Melchizedek” (Psalm 110:4).

• 7 This One [Jesus], in the days of His flesh, offered, with loud crying and tears, both heart-felt prayers and an olive branch of peace towards the One able to save Him continuously out from death and was always heard because of His careful reverence, • 8 though being a Son, He learned submission to what was spoken by [giving thanks in] all the circumstances, good or bad, acting upon Him. • 9 And having been brought to the full completion [of devotion], He became the causation of and responsibility for age-unfolding salvation to all who are hearing Him. 10 He is called High Priest by God, according to the order of Melchizedek. 11 Concerning whom there are many words for us to speak, but difficult to explain since you have become dull in hearing.

12 Indeed, you ought to be teachers by this time, yet you need someone to teach you the first elements of the speaking of God, for you have become as those needing milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone partaking only of milk is unskilled in the word of just approval and is an infant. 14 Solid food, however, is for those who are complete [in the knowledge of Christ], who by practice are exercising their perceptive faculties towards distinguishing good and also evil.
 		  
 
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