Hebrews 5:4

Honour. Gr. time “honor,” “respect,” “a place of honor,” “office.” Here “office” or “place of honor” would be suitable meanings. The office of high priest was a position of honor.

Called of God. The office of high priest was by divine appointment. It was God who selected Aaron for the position (Ex. 28:1). The succession in the family of Aaron was also presumably ordered by God as implied in the text under consideration, for in the course of Israel’s history many priests held the office who were unworthy of their position, but the author is here not concerned with this. It is his purpose to set forth divine appointment as an essential qualification of the true high priesthood, in order to show that Christ met this as well as other requirements (Heb. 5:5-10).