“Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.”
Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy — I who make you holy. The community is commanded to regard the priests as holy — the holiness of the priestly office is recognized not only by the priests but by the community they serve. The I who make you holy grounds the priestly holiness in the divine act: the priests are holy because God makes them holy, not because of their own achievement. The same divine sanctification that makes the community holy makes the priests holy — and the community that regards its priests as holy honors the God who made them so.
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