--- title: "Hebrews 8 - Study King James Bible with the church pulpit commentary" description: "Read Hebrews 8 with the church pulpit commentary commentary. 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the he" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8" --- [ Read](/kjv/hebrews/8)[ Commentary](/study/hebrews/8)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/hebrews/8) Audio 1 Now of the things which we have spoken *this is* the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore *it is* of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, *that* thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first *covenant* had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this *is* the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new *covenant*, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old *is* ready to vanish away. [Hebrews 7](/study/hebrews/7) [Hebrews 9](/study/hebrews/9) ## Commentary To verse 1 *CHRISTIAN PRIESTHOOD* **‘The right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.’** ** [Hebrews 8:1](/kjv/hebrews/8/1)** ** The soul of man in its transactions with God has to look to heaven. Once it could take its place in the outer court and wait while the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies. Between the two places, between the High Priest and the people, there was the holy place; a place of sacrifice and service. Between the Holy of Holies to which Christ has gone and the Christian soul there is no building made with hands; no holy place where priests may but others may not enter. **I. We are right to set apart certain men** who shall be employed in the ministry of our churches, who shall lead the prayers and praises of the people, shall give all their time to the study of the Scriptures, the spiritual care of the young, the sick, and the ignorant. But to think that this excuses ‘unordained’ Christian folk from taking any part other than a silent one in these things is wholly to mistake the meaning of the Christian priesthood, which is the calling of every Christian. **II. Two especial dangers may be pointed out**. (*a*) *We are apt to assume that a lower standard of holy life is expected of the laity than of the clergy*. A clergyman cannot engage in the ordinary business of life because he has a life-work marked out for him which demands all his time. If there be any other reason than this which would make you shrink from seeing him share your everyday life, see to it, lest you are making a distinction for which you have no warrant; lest you are trying to keep a strict line of demarcation between the times you give to the service of God and to the ‘business of life’ respectively. (*b*) *God forbid that we should be thought to encourage the interference of the minister of Christ with secular things*. Quite the contrary. It is the layman’s life which we would see spiritualised, not the clergyman’s secularised. *His* life is a blessed one, indeed, if it bring time for much study of the Bible, for converse about heavenly things, for communion with God. It is a glorious ‘eldership.’ The privilege of preaching the Gospel of Christ is unspeakably great. But the ordinary man neither sells his own privilege of doing definite work for Christ nor rids himself of the responsibility of doing so by supporting the clergyman with his presence and his purse. Let us, then, set up the very highest standard of Christian life and service for every member of Christ, since every one is an attendant priest waiting until the High Priest shall come out from His Father’s presence and examine His work. **III. ‘Waiting,’ do we say?**—Who knows how eagerly the Lord Himself may be waiting until we will do His work and let Him come? No little band of priests does the Church need; but it asks every member of it to realise his ordination as a priest and king unto God. Clad in the righteousness of our Lord, we are to stand and wait and work, offering up our powers of body, mind, and soul, and doing this cheerfully and perfectly, in heathen lands or at home, reckoning that no earthly business can excuse us from the duties of our high office. We are to live, too, a life of serious, high-minded thought as well as effort, for it becomes us to think much and deeply of the great truths whose witnesses we are. Petty things must not vex the priests of God; idle words they must not utter. They have been baptized with a baptism; they have died and risen with Christ; they must seek those things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God; at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. Rev. Dr. Flecker. **Illustration** ‘If the service of God cannot permeate the business of life you are in a wrong business and had better separate yourself from it. It is well to be perfectly outspoken on this matter. It is with recreations as with business. Theatre-going, card-playing, “gentle” gambling, are right or wrong quite irrespectively of the person who takes part in them. The “parson” and the working man have as much, or as little, right to bet as the wealthiest in the land; there lies a terrible danger in the notion that by approving of clergymen being punctilious and by “supporting” them on Sundays you have fulfilled all the law’s demands; that there is a little licence allowed you in the matter of eating and drinking, of reading, of amusing yourselves, of spending your money, which is not allowed to “the clergy.” ’ ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8","name":"Hebrews 8 - Study King James Bible with the church pulpit commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Hebrews 8 with the church pulpit commentary commentary. 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the he","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary","name":"the church pulpit commentary"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews","name":"Hebrews"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/hebrews/8","name":"8"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```