But all this is true in its practical application to every man individually. The power of the word of God to create distinct dispensations and yet maintain their fundamental unity, to distinguish between masses of men and yet cause all the separate threads of human history to converge and at last meet, is the same power which judges the inmost thoughts and inmost purposes of the heart. These it surveys with critical judgment.[61] If its eye is keen, its range of vision is also wide. No created thing but is seen and manifest. The surface is bared, and the depth within is opened up before it. As the upturned neck of the sacrificial beast lay bare to the eye of God,[62] so are we exposed to the eye of Him to Whom we have to give our account.[63] FOOTNOTES: [38] Chap. iii. 2. [39] 1 Cor. iv. 2. [40] Chap. iii. 4. [41] ποιήσαντι. [42] Chap. iii. 5. [43] Ps. xcv. 7, sqq. [44] Chap. ii. 13. [45] τὰ κῶλα. Cf. chap. xii. 12. [46] οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν (iii. 19). [47] εὐηγγελισμένοι (iv. 2). [48] Reading συγκεκερασμένος. [49] Chap. iv. 3. [50] Chap. iv. 8. [51] Ps. xxvii. 4. [52] Gal. vi. 16. [53] Chap. iv. 10. [54] Matt. v. 17, 18. [55] Matt. xxiv. 35. [56] Chap. iv. 12. [57] ἐνεργής. [58] μερισμοῦ. [59] ἁρμῶν. [60] μυελῶν. [61] κριτικός. [62] τετραχηλισμένα (iv. 13). [63] ὁ λόγος. CHAPTER IV. _THE GREAT HIGH-PRIEST._ “Having then a great High-priest, Who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high-priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but One that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need. For every high-priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. And no man taketh the honour unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron. So Christ also glorified not Himself to be made a High-priest, but He that spake unto Him, Thou art My Son, This day have I begotten Thee: as He saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.