Four points of connection between the glory of Christ and His humiliation have been mentioned. In his recapitulation, the Apostle sums all up in two. The one is that Christ is Priest; the other is that He succours them that are tempted. His propitiatory death and His bringing to nought the power of Satan are included in the notion of priesthood. The moral discipline that made Him our Leader and the sense of brotherhood that made Him Sanctifier render Him able to succour the tempted. Even this also, as will be fully shown by the Apostle in a subsequent chapter, is contained in His priesthood. For He only can make propitiation, Whose heart is full of tender pity and steeled only against pity for Himself by reason of His dauntless fidelity to others. Thus is the Son better than the angels. FOOTNOTES: [8] Col. i. 15, 19. [9] Acts vii. 53. [10] Gal. iii. 19. [11] ἀγαγόντα. [12] Matt. xxv. 31. [13] Luke xxii. 43. The genuineness of the verse is somewhat doubtful. [14] μὴ παραρυῶμεν (ii. 1). [15] Matt. xxi. 33, sqq. [16] Heb. x. 29. [17] Ps. viii. 4. [18] Ps. viii. 2. [19] 1 Cor. xv. 27. [20] ἠλάττωσας. [21] Cf. Acts ii. 30. [22] Chap. ii. 4. [23] γεύσηται (ii. 9). [24] John xvii. 5. [25] χάριτι. [26] ἀρχηγόν (ii. 10). [27] δι’ ὅν. [28] δι’ οὖ. [29] Chap. xii. 7. [30] ὁ ἁγιάζων (ii. 11). [31] Ps. xxii. 22. [32] Chap. ii. 13. [33] Isa. viii. 18 [34] Chap. ii. 14. [35] _Humiliation of Christ_, p. 46. [36] Chap. v. 4, 5. [37] ἐπιλαμβάνεται (ii. 16). CHAPTER III. _FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS._ Hebrews iii. i-iv. 13 (R.V.). “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our confession, _even_ Jesus; who was faithful to Him that appointed Him as also was Moses in all his house. For He hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some one; but He that built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; but Christ as a Son, over His house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end. Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye shall hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, Wherewith your fathers tempted _Me_ by proving _Me_, And saw My works forty years. Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know My ways; As I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.