The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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FIFTH SECTION.-vii. 1-28.
The New Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek.
L.
MELCHIZEDEK MADE LIKE UNTO THE SON OF GOD.
VII. 1. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed
him,
2. To whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by inter
pretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is, King
of peace ;
3. Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither be
ginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a
priest continually.
IN chap. v. we read that Jesus was called of God, even as
was Aaron. In many points Aaron was a type of Christ. But
there were other respects in which the priesthood of Aaron
utterly failed even to prefigure that of Christ. By a special
divine provision the name of another is found, in whom, what
was wanting in Aaron as type, was foreshadowed.
The differ
ence between the priesthood of Aaron and Melchizedek is a
radical one.
In the right understanding of what that difference
is, and in the knowledge of that in which Melchizedek has been
made like unto the Son of God, lies the secret of this Epistle,