Hebrews 7:1-3
A COMPARISON BETWEEN CHRIST AND MELCHIZEDEK. Melchizedek a type of Christ in a singular manner:... [ Continue Reading ]
A COMPARISON BETWEEN CHRIST AND MELCHIZEDEK. Melchizedek a type of Christ in a singular manner:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS MELCHIZEDEK, KING OF SALEM, PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHO MET ABRAHAM RETURNING FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE KINGS AND BLESSED HIM;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM ALSO ABRAHAM GAVE A TENTH PART OF ALL; FIRST BEING BY INTERPRETATION KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND AFTER THAT ALSO KING OF SALEM, WHICH IS, KING OF PEACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT FATHER, WITHOUT MOTHER, WITHOUT DESCENT, HAVING NEITHER BEGINNING OF DAYS NOR END OF LIFE, BUT MADE LIKE UNTO THE SON OF GOD, ABIDETH A PRIEST CONTINUALLY. This paragraph opens one of the most important sections in the entire letter, since it is intended to set forth the superiority of Chris... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, CONSIDER HOW GREAT THIS MAN WAS, UNTO WHOM EVEN THE PATRIARCH ABRAHAM GAVE THE TENTH OF THE SPOILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The superiority of Melchizedek over the Levitical priests:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, VERILY, THEY THAT ARE OF THE SONS OF LEVI, WHO RECEIVE THE OFFICE OF THE PRIESTHOOD, HAVE A COMMANDMENT TO TAKE TITHES OF THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW, THAT IS, OF THEIR BRETHREN, THOUGH THEY COME OUT OF THE LOINS OF ABRAHAM;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE WHOSE DESCENT IS NOT COUNTED FROM THEM RECEIVED TITHES OF ABRAHAM, AND BLESSED HIM THAT HAD THE PROMISES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITHOUT ALL CONTRADICTION THE LESS IS BLESSED OF THE BETTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HERE MEN THAT DIE RECEIVE TITHES; BUT THERE HE RECEIVETH THEM OF WHOM IT IS WITNESSED THAT HE LIVETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS I MAY SO SAY, LEV. ALSO, WHO RECEIVETH TITHES, PAID TITHES IN ABRAHAM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WAS YET IN THE LOINS OF HIS FATHER WHEN MELCHIZEDEK MET HIM. In this second argument of the series the inspired author shows that Melchizedek was greater than the patriarch Abraham, from whom the Jewish nation descended, to whom was entrusted God's blessing. How much more, then, is he greater... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, THEREFORE, PERFECTION WERE BY THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD, (FOR UNDER IT THE PEOPLE RECEIVED THE LAW,) WHAT FURTHER NEED WAS THERE THAT ANOTHER PRIEST SHOULD RISE AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK, AND NOT BE CALLED AFTER THE ORDER OF AARON?... [ Continue Reading ]
The imperfection of the Levitical priesthood and of the Mosaic system:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PRIESTHOOD BEING CHANGED, THERE IS MADE OF NECESSITY A CHANGE ALSO OF THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE OF WHOM THESE THINGS ARE SPOKEN PERTAINETH TO ANOTHER TRIBE, OF WHICH NO MAN GAVE ATTENDANCE AT THE ALTAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDA; OF WHICH TRIBE MOSES SPAKE NOTHING CONCERNING PRIESTHOOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT IS YET FAR MORE EVIDENT; FOR THAT AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF MELCHIZEDEK THERE ARISETH ANOTHER PRIEST,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IS MADE, NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT, BUT AFTER THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE TESTIFIETH, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE IS VERILY A DISANNULLING OF THE COMMANDMENT GOING BEFORE FOR THE WEAKNESS AND UNPROFITABLENESS THEREOF.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT, BUT THE BRINGING IN OF A BETTER HOPE DID, BY THE WHICH WE DRAW NIGH UNTO GOD. Careful and tactful arguing was required at this point, lest the Jewish Christians be offended without need and the attempt to win them to a sound understanding of Christ's importance fail... [ Continue Reading ]
AND INASMUCH AS NOT WITHOUT AN OATH HE WAS MADE PRIEST,... [ Continue Reading ]
The oath of God a guarantee of the superiority of Christ's priesthood:... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR THOSE PRIESTS WERE MADE WITHOUT AN OATH; BUT THIS WITH AN OATH BY HIM THAT SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD SWORE AND WILL NOT REPENT, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK,)... [ Continue Reading ]
BY SO MUCH WAS JESUS MADE A SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT. This is another important consideration in the proof of Christ's greater excellence: And in proportion as not without the swearing of an oath (was He made priest), in that proportion Jesus also became surety for a better covenant. Jesus becam... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TRULY WERE MANY PRIESTS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT SUFFERED TO CONTINUE BY REASON OF DEATH;... [ Continue Reading ]
Another feature of Christ's priesthood is its eternal continuance:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THIS MAN, BECAUSE HE CONTINUETH EVER, HATH AN UNCHANGEABLE PRIESTHOOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE HE IS ABLE ALSO TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST THAT COME UNTO GOD BY HIM, SEEING HE EVER LIVETH TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM. This is a point in which the superiority of Christ is very evident. Christ not only brought us back again into the right relation with God, but He permanently insur... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SUCH AN HIGH PRIEST BECAME US WHO IS HOLY, HARMLESS, UNDEFILED, SEPARATE FROM SINNERS, AND MADE HIGHER THAN THE HEAVENS;... [ Continue Reading ]
The writer concludes that Christ is the perfect High Priest:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO NEEDETH NOT DAILY, AS THOSE HIGH PRIESTS, TO OFFER UP SACRIFICE, FIRST FOR HIS OWN SINS AND THEN FOR THE PEOPLE'S; FOR THIS HE DID ONCE, WHEN HE OFFERED UP HIMSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE LAW MAKETH MEN HIGH PRIESTS WHICH HAVE INFIRMITY; BUT THE WORD OF THE OATH WHICH WAS SINCE THE LAW MAKETH THE SON, WHO IS CONSECRATED FOREVERMORE. The various advantages which Christ Jesus enjoyed in comparison with the men that held office in the Old Testament, as priests under the old disp... [ Continue Reading ]