For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is of necessity that this man have something also to offer.
All Commentaries on Hebrews 8:3 Go To Hebrews 8
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For every high priest That is, as all priests are ordained to offer up to God some gifts and sacrifices; so Christ, a priest for ever, has now in heaven something to offer to his eternal Father; to wit, the infinite merits and satisfactions of his death and passion. This he doth in heaven, and also by the ministry of his priests on earth, who offer the same in his name. (Witham)
This is the daily sacrifice of Christians, foretold plainly by Malachi as, chap. i. 10. 11. This is also clearly mentioned in St. Justin Martyr, Dial. cum Try phone.; Tertullian, co. M. and shadows of heavenly things in the new law after Christ's coming, and of the sacrifice by which he offered himself on the cross. And this God doubtless revealed to Moses, when he said to him: take heed "thou make all things according to the pattern which was shown thee on the mount. "(Witham)
Earth That is, if he were not of a higher condition than the Levitical order of earthly priests, and had not another kind of sacrifice to offer, he should be excluded by them from the priesthood, and its functions, which by the law were appropriated to their tribe. (Challoner)
