And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost,.... Because he continues ever, and has an unchangeable priesthood. This is to be understood not of temporal salvation, nor of providential…
Barnes' Notes
And they truly - Under the Jewish dispensation. The object of this verse and the following is, to state one more reason of the excellence of the priesthood of Christ. It is, that owing to the frailty…
Adam Clarke
And they truly were many priests - Under the Mosaic law it was necessary there should be a succession of priests, because, being mortal, they were not suffered to continue always by reason of death.
Observe the necessity there was of raising up another priest, after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of Aaron, by whom that perfection should come which could not come by the Levitical…
Cambridge Bible
many priests Lit., "And they truly have been constituted priests many in number."
they were not suffered to continue by reason of death The vacancies caused in their number by the ravages of death…