And by reason hereof— "By reason of this infirmity, common to him and all mankind, he is obliged for himself, as well as for the people, to offer sacrifice for sins." Here again is a great dissimilitude of circumstances between the high-priest taken from among men, and our High-priest: for, though they have sins for which they are obliged to offer sacrifice, yet Christ had none: and in this a remarkably superior dignityappears in our Lord, that he was without sin, ch. Hebrews 4:15 and consequently did not, could not, offer for any sins of his own. See Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 16:32; Leviticus 21:10 and Leviticus 7:27.
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Hebrews 5:3
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.