“Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.”
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness — the high priest's capacity for mercy toward the ignorant and erring flows from his own experiential knowledge of weakness. Shared humanity, including shared frailty, enables compassion; the priest understands human limitation from within.
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