1. For every chief priest--out of men taken--in behalf of men is set in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
2. able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
3. and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;
4. and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:
5. so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'
6. as also in another [place] He saith, `Thou [art] a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
7. who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death--with strong crying and tears--having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,