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*9:2, 21:7, 46:4, 10:14, 87:J). (Se G, 198). (SIB,
234)’: “Who this Melchizedek vqs, this priest of ,Gc$
among the Canaanites, greater thaQ.,+4bram, the friend of
God, who were his parents or his symessors, is on purpose
concealed by the Holy Ghost, And, hence he, is without
father- or mother, predecessor or successor, i
account,. in order that he might $typijy th
hensible dignity, the amazing pedigreed- and
duration of Jesus Christ, our great High.priest. Heb. 6:20,
‘Jesus was made a high priest after the, order of Melchizedek’;
Heb. J:6, 10; Psa. 110:4; Heb.,7:l724),.’,
In the New Testament account.of Melchizedek (Heb.,
chs. 6, 7), we find him described as-both king and priest;
hence our Christ (Messiah) is likeyise +a King-Priest after
the order of Melchizedek. It is also said of Melchizedek
that he is “without father, without mather,, without genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,” “but
made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually”
(Heb. 7:2, 3%). It is further declared that our great High
Priest was made High Priest “not after the law of a carnal
commandment” (as in the case of the Levitical priesthood),
but in “the likeness of Melchizedek” was made High Priest
“after the power of an endless life” (7:15-17). Does this
really mean that the analogy is only “in the historical
account”? So writes Milligan (NTCH, 198) : “, . . the
Apostle manifestly uses these negative epithets in our text,
to denote simply that the parentage of Melchizedek is unknown;
that so far as the record goes, he was without
father and without mother, and furthermore that he was
without descent, or, rather, without genealogy. Nothing
concerning either his ancestry or his posterity is recorded
in the Holy Scriptures. There, he appears on the page of
typical history isolated and alone, . . . Christ, in the sense
in , is here contemplated by our author, had no
Pre , and he will have no successors. He himself
will continue to officiate as our royal high priest during
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