(12) For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
(12) Another argument: There are required in an high priest innocency and perfect pureness, which may separate him from sinners, for whom he offers. The Levitical high priests are not found to be such, for they offer first for their own sins: but only Christ is such a one, and therefore the only true High Priest.