This is of two orders, answering somewhat to the double character of the High-priesthood. Believers are holy priests to offer up spiritual sacrifices, herein resembling the Aaronic order, and are also royal priests to show forth the virtues of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2), herein resembling the Melchizedek functions, which Christ will exercise hereafter. All believers, men and women, are priests, and are all responsible to offer up sacrifices, which are of three sorts—praise, almsgiving, (Heb. 13:15,16), and devotion (Rom. 12:1).