Chapter 4
The Officiating Priesthood
- The Priesthood—Priests 'obedient to the faith'
- The Number of Priests—Those who were prevented from going up in their course prayed and fasted in their synagogues
- Symbolism of the Priesthood/Mediation—The institution of the priesthood—The two ideas of reconciliation and holiness
- Holiness
- The Twenty-four Courses—Arrangement of the priests into twenty-four courses
- The Courses After the Captivity—How their number was made up after the return from Babylon—Arrangement of the Levites into twenty-four courses
- In the Temple of Herod
- Duties of Priests and Levites
- The Week's Service—The Sabbath law in the Temple—Arrangement of the courses on duty
- These Functions Not Sacerdotal—The law opposed to all priestly pretensions—'Learned' and 'unlettered priests'
- Training of Priests—Value attached to learning
- Office Hereditary—The high-priests—Their succession
- Disqualifications for thePriesthood —Age and qualifications for the priestly office
- The Investiture—High-priests 'by anointing' and high-priests 'by investiture'
- The Dress of the High-priest
- Allusions to the Dress in the New Testament
- The Breast-plate/Mitre/Phylacteries/The Ziz—Were phylacteries at the time of Christ universally worn?
- The Fourteen Officers—The various officials among the priesthood—The 'elders of the priests' or 'honourable councillors'
- Their Duties
- Lower Officials
- Sources of Support for the Priests—The twenty-four sources whence the support of the priesthood was derived.
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