[Cronos]

Hebrews 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest (archierea – only used for Christ in the New Testament) who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.

The High Priest, Jesus Christ is the High Priest and the one-time Sacrifice -- note, this is a participation in the One-Time sacrifice

He is present at each Eucharist

The English word "priest" is derived from the Greek word presbuteros, which is commonly rendered into Bible English as "elder" or "presbyter --> your own phrase of "commonly" is properly termed as "modern English" -- neglecting the facts of it's etymological origin

Next you'll say that Joseph was gay as in the KJV it says that he was gaily apparelled -- right?

[Elsie]

He is present at each Eucharist

ONLY in the sense of "where two or three are gathered in My name..."

[CynicalBear]

>>neglecting the facts of it's etymological origin<<

Surely you understand what etymology means?

The meaning of words change over time to mean what they did not originally mean. That says that in order to understand the writings of the time we need to understand what was meant by that word at that time. What the Catholic Church is doing is trying to inject a meaning for the word priest as they want it to mean onto the usage of a word in scripture and it doesn’t work with anyone who is honestly trying to find truth.

>>Next you'll say that Joseph was gay as in the KJV it says that he was gaily apparelled -- right?<<

And that would be the stupidity of using etymology to inject the word priest onto the word presbuteros. As we can’t use today’s meaning of the word gay onto the use of that word in history. It is equally as stupid to use the meaning of the word presbuteros during the time of the scriptures to mean priest. There were different words that meant priest during that time.