Ninguém deve se autodeclarar sacerdote, senão apenas aquele que é chamado por Deus, como Aarão. Nem Cristo se atribuiu a si mesmo a glória de ser pontífice, pois essa glória lhe foi dada por Deus, quando disse: "Tu és sacerdote eternamente, segundo a ordem de Melquisedec"

1 Every high priest taken from among human beings is appointed to act on their behalf in relationships with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins;
2 he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he too is subject to weakness.
3 That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.
4 No one takes this honour on himself, but only one who is called by God, as Aaron was.
5 And so it was not Christ who gave himself the glory of becoming high priest, but the one who said to him: You are my Son, today I have fathered you,
6 and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek.