Our Brother High Priest

How highly favored are the people of God’s covenant mercy, since His exalted and glorified Son calls them, “My brethren!” (Hebrews 2:11); “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God!” (1 John 3:1) While this sonship embraces sinful people of the Jews and Gentiles alike, it is in the sonship of the Son of Man and in His holy life and Divine nature; for the sinless Jesus is the only begotten Son of God and in His life and righteousness only are we the sons of the Holy Father. That the people whom the Father gave Him in the perfect covenant should be made “The holy people” the Holy Son of God came to them in the flesh and under the law and thus is He their Near Kinsman and Beloved Brother and in Him was the right of redemption. The noble and compassionate Boaz, the near kinsman of the widowed and impoverished Naomi who represented the state of the Jews and as betrothing Ruth unto himself, as representing the Gentiles, thus redeemed them both and made them rich, in which he is a beautiful type of our Spiritual Kinsman, of Whom Paul says: “For ye know the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” (2 Cor. 8:9)