the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Hebrews 8:4
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Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
If Jesus was on earth, he wouldn't even be a trail boss. There are plenty who can give gifts and make sacrifices according the old code.
If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;
If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, there being priests that offer gifts, according to the law,
If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since here there are already those who present the offerings in obedience to the Law,
For if he were on earth, he should not bee a Priest, seeing that there are Priests that offer gifts according to the Law:
For if indeed He were on earth, He would not even be a priest, there being those priests offering gifts according to the Law,
For he were not a prest, yf he were vpon earth, where are prestes yt acordynge to the lawe
which office he could not discharge here upon earth, where priests are already establish'd, who offer gifts according to the law:
Now if He were [still living] on earth, He would not be a priest at all, for there are priests who offer the gifts [to God] in accordance with the Law.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
For he were not a preste yf he were on ye erth where are prestes that acordynge to ye lawe
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,
If our high priest were now living on earth, he would not be a priest, because there are already priests here who follow the law by offering gifts to God.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.
If he were here on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because here the Law appoints other priests to offer sacrifices.
Now if he were on earth, he wouldn't be a cohen at all, since there already are cohanim offering the gifts required by the Torah.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
For he were not a Priest, if he were on the earth, seeing there are Priestes that according to the Lawe offer giftes,
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, because there are priests who offer gifts according to the law:
Now if He were on earth, He wouldn't be a priest, since there are those offering the gifts prescribed by the law.
For if he were on eretz, he would not be a Kohen at all, seeing there are Kohanim who offer the gifts according to the law;
Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
But were he upon the earth, he would not be a priest, because there were priests who offered oblations as by the law;
And if he were on earth, he would not be a priest; because there are priests [fn] , who offer oblations agreeably to the law:
For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
If he were here on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there already are priests who offer the gifts required by the law.
If Christ were on the earth, He would not be a religious leader such as these. The religious leaders on earth give gifts like the Law says.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
If, indeed, therefore, he had been on earth, he had not, in that case, even been a priest, since there are those who are offering the gifts, according to the law: -
If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law.
Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because there are those who offer the gifts according to the law,
For he were not a priest, yf he were on the earth, seyng there are priestes that accordyng to the lawe offer gyftes,
If our high priest were now living on earth, he would not be a priest. I say this because there are already priests here who follow the law by offering gifts to God.
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
If he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer the gifts required by the Jewish Law.
Therfor if he were on erthe, he were no preest, whanne ther weren that schulden offre yiftis bi the lawe,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he should: Hebrews 7:11-15, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 17:12, Numbers 17:13, Numbers 18:5, 2 Chronicles 26:18, 2 Chronicles 26:19
there are priests: or, they are priests
gifts: שסב [Strong's G1435], gifts, or offerings, comprehended propitiatory sacrifices as well as freewill-offerings., See, Hebrews 11:4
Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:20 - the offering Numbers 3:10 - and the stranger
Cross-References
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,.... The Socinians from hence attempt to prove that Christ was not a priest, and did not offer sacrifice on earth; whereas his coming into the world, and his appearance in human nature, was in the character of a priest, and to qualify himself for one; his death was his sacrifice, which was on earth; and he never offered but one sacrifice; and it was after he had offered himself that he went to heaven; so the sacrifices under the law were first offered, before their blood was carried within: but the meaning is, either if "that" was on earth, namely, what it was necessary he should have to offer; if his human nature had been earthly, had been of men, had come by ordinary generation, he had not been properly, only typically a priest, at most; and had been no better than the typical ones; yea, he would have been needless, nay, might not have offered, not being of Levi's tribe, and could not have existed as a priest with the sons of Aaron; but he had his human nature in another way, through the power of the Holy Ghost from above, and therefore is said to come from above, from heaven, and to be the Lord from heaven: or the sense is, if he was on earth, and had not died, he had not been a priest; and if he had died and remained under the power of death, he had been a priest of no account and use; and had he rose again and remained on earth, without going to heaven, with his blood and sacrifice, he had not been a perfect priest; if Christ had remained on earth, the Levitical priesthood had remained, and so he would have been no priest, since two priesthoods could not have subsisted together. The Levitical priesthood was in force while Christ was on earth; Christ's priesthood was not perfected on earth; the Levitical priesthood remaining while he was on earth, proves he was not then a perfect priest, or had not completed his priesthood; had he been so, that would not have subsisted; it was necessary therefore that Christ should enter into the holy place, to put an end to the Levitical priesthood: moreover, if he had remained on earth, he had been needless;
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law; there were priests when Christ was upon earth; their work was to offer gifts the people brought, and sacrifices for sin, and that according to the law of Moses, which till the death of Christ was in full force.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest - He could not perform that office. The design of this is, to show a reason why he was removed to heaven. The reason was, that on earth there were those who were set apart to that office, and that he, not being of the same tribe with them, could not officiate as priest. There was an order of people here on earth consecrated already to that office, and hence, it was necessary that the Lord Jesus, in performing the functions of the office, should be removed to another sphere.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 8:4. For if he were on earth — As the Jewish temple was standing when this epistle was written, the whole temple service continued to be performed by the legal priests, descendants of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; therefore if Christ had been then on earth, he could not have performed the office of a priest, being of the tribe of Judah, to which tribe the office of the priesthood did not appertain.
There are priests that offer gifts — This is an additional proof that this epistle was written before the destruction of Jerusalem. As the word θυσιαι, sacrifices, is not added here as it is in Hebrews 8:3, is it any evidence that bloody sacrifices had then ceased to be offered? Or, are both kinds included in the word δωρα, gifts? But is δωρον, a gift, ever used to express a bloody sacrifice? I believe the Septuagint never used it for זבח zebach, which signifies an animal offered to God in sacrifice.
