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A NEW COVENANT FOR GOD'S PEOPLE 107
himself the satisfactory High Priest. The new
covenant needed just such a High Priest ; he is
exactly suitable for persons brought into the new
covenant :
7 " For there are indeed men that have become
priests without a sworn oath, but there is one
with an oath sworn by the one that said respecting
him, Jehovah has sworn, and he will not feel
regret : "You are a priest forever,"' to that extent
also Jesus has become the one given in pledge
of a better covenant. Furthermore, many had to
become priests in succession because of being prevented
by death from continuing as such, but he
because of continuing alive forever has his priesthood
without any successors . Consequently he is
able also to save completely those who are approaching
God through him, because he is always
alive to plead for them . For such a high priest
as this was suitable for us, one of loving-kindness,
guileless, undefiled, separated from the sinners,
and become higher than the heavens. He does not
need daily, as those high priests do, to offer up
sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those
of the people : for this he did once for all time
when he offered himself up; for the Law appoints
men high priests having weakness, but the
word of the sworn oath that came after the Law
appoints a Son, who is perfected forever ." -Hebrews
7 :21-28, NW.
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By foretelling a new covenant with his chosen
7. How can Jesus be a priest forever? With what benefit
to us?
e. How was the old covenant canceled? With what was
it replaced?