One guy. For life. Only unique duties were to once a year offer the Day of Atonement sacrifices.
Those requirements did not all apply to the hundreds of other levitical priests that worked in the temple.
I see no correlation to modern day pastors/elders/deacons.
I hate to disagree, but if you look at the qualifications, strickly speaking, even if you were from the tride of Levi, you
had to marry a virgin.
"And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife."
John Gill comments:
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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
One, and not two, or more, as Ben Gersom observes; and so Maimonides says, an high priest might never take two women together; for it is said, "a wife", or "woman", one, and not two; and so it is explained in the Talmud; for though polygamy was practised by the Israelites, and even by the common priests, yet these writers suppose it was by no means allowed to an high priest: among the Egyptians, though they took as many wives as they pleased, their priests, married but one; and so a minister of the New Testament is to be the husband of one wife, (
1 Timothy 3:2 ) ; and this wife the high priest was to take was to be a "virgin", one that not only had never known a man, but that was never betrothed to any; yea, according to the Talmudists, who was not quite ripe for marriage, or the time of her puberty not fully completed, which was the age of twelve years; within, or somewhat before that time, the high priest was to marry her, that it might be out of all doubt that she was a pure virgin; since it is said, "in her virginity", within the time of her puberty, before it was quite up; this, by many, is thought to be an emblem of Christ and his church; as he was typified by the high priest, so the church by the virgin he married, which is espoused to Christ as a chaste virgin, (
2 Corinthians 11:2 ) .
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A widow
The high priest might not marry, whether the widow of a priest or of an Israelite, as Aben Ezra, that is, of any Israelite that was not of the priesthood; and this, whether a widow after espousals, or after marriage, as runs the Jewish canon; the meaning is, that if she was betrothed to a man, and that man died before he married her, and so was a virgin; yet being betrothed to him was reckoned as his widow; and such an one the high priest might not marry, any more than one that had been left a widow, having being married: though, according to the same constitutions, if he had betrothed a widow, and after that was appointed an high priest, he might marry her, and an instance of it is given in Joshua the son of Gamla: and in the same it is observed, that an high priest, when his brother dies, must suffer his shoe to be plucked off, and not marry his brother's widow; which, in other cases, when there was no issue, was required:
or a divorced woman;
whether by a priest, or a common Israelite; and indeed, if a common priest might not marry such a person, much less an high priest: or profane anyone born of those that were not fit for priests to marry, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi; (
See Gill on Leviticus 21:7);
[or] an harlot;
a common prostitute:
those shall he not take
any or either of them, to be his wife; which are forbid in order to maintain the dignity of his office, and a reverence of it: there seems to be a gradation in these instances, he might not marry a widow, which was forbidden no other man; and if not such an one, much less a divorced woman, still less a profane person, and least of all an harlot;
but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife;
which phrase, "of his own people", did not limit him to his own tribe, and to the fraternity of priests in it, as if he was to marry only in it, or the daughter of a priest; for the priests and Levites being scattered in the several tribes, and having no inheritances in them, were not restrained from marrying into other tribes, as the rest of the tribes were; and so an high priest sometimes married into another tribe, though he took care not to debase himself, by marrying into a mean family: so Jehoiada, the high priest, married Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, (
2 Chronicles 22:11 ) ; but by this law he was forbid to marry a virgin of another nation, even though a proselytess and one that was made free, as Gersom observes; a captive virgin, and one that was become a Jewess, as Aben Ezra says, he was not allowed to marry."
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And from the commentary on Lev. 21:13, we draw a direct link to 1 Tim. 3:2:
"and so a minister of the New Testament is to be the husband of one wife, (
1 Timothy 3:2 ) ;"
Ibid
Like I said before, I have no problem with a divorced man becoming a Pastor as long as he isn't re-married. I take, as most Baptists did, the "husband of one wife" meant that even in divorce, as long as she is alive, he could not re-marry.
While some of the priests only served once per year in the Temple, that did not negate the "husband of one wife".
Sorry to disagree.
God Bless
Till all are one.