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 — an earthly Jesus could not function as priest under the Levitical system since that order has its own designated priests. The conditional structure highlights the radical discontinuity: Christ's priesthood transcends the earthly institutional framework entirely. This statement does not deny his incarnation but rather emphasizes that his priestly work operates in a sphere above and beyond earthly temples.

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