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MELCHIZEDEK

Hebrews 5:6
just as He says also in another passage, "YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.

(See Scofield) - ( Gen. 14:18). Melchisedec was a suitable type of Christ as High Priest, because:

(1) he was a king-priest ( Gen. 14:18); (Zec. 6:12); (Zec. 6:13).

(2) his name means, "my king is righteous" (compare (Isa. 11:5) and he was king of Salem (that is, "peace". (compare (Isa. 11:6-9).)

(3) he had no (recorded) "beginning of days" (compare (Joh. 1:1) nor "end of life" (compare (Rom. 6:9); ( Heb. 7:23-25); nor

(4) was he made a high priest by human appointment (Psa. 110:4).

But the contrast between the high priesthood of Melchisedec and Aaron is only as to person, "order" (or appointment), and duration.

In His work, Christ follows the Aaronic pattern, the "shadow" of which Christ was the substance. ( Heb. 8:1-6); ( Heb. 9:1-28).

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