Which is [a]able sufficiently to have compassion [b]on them that are ignorant, and that are out of the way, because that he also is [c]compassed with infirmity,

And for the same sake he is bound to offer for sins, as well for his own part, as for the peoples.

(A)[d]And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:2 Fit and meet.
  2. Hebrews 5:2 On them that are sinful: for in the Hebrew tongue, under ignorance and error is every sin meant, even that sin that is voluntary.
  3. Hebrews 5:2 For that he himself beareth about with him a nature subject to the same discommodities and vices.
  4. Hebrews 5:4 The third comparison which is whole: The others are called of God, and so was Christ, but in another order than Aaron: for Christ is called the Son, begotten of God, and a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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