...rational possibility of doubt, as to the identity of the authority. — "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days...unto the son of God, abideth a priest continually." — v. 3. 314 TUB LION. Commentators seem to have exhausted all the powers of imagination, to conceive...

...Heb. vi. 19, 20. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, &c. having neither beginning of days, nor end of life ; but made like...unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. After the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another Priest, who is made, not after the law of...

...order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron ? 12 For the priesthood being neither beginning of days, nor end of life ; but made like...unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even mother, without descent, having changed, there...

...-.1 - . , • .* or ail i-evuicai father, without mother, without descent, having neither Priests: beginning of days, nor end of life : but made like...the Son of God; — abideth a priest continually. Now consider how 4 great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils....

...ancestor that went before him in his priesthood, or any posterity that should succeed him in it. In that respect, Melchizedeck is a type of Christ, of...without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor eiul ot life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually :" and therefore it is...

...HIM, that he was made like unto Melchisedeck, who is described as " without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days,...nor end of life, but made like unto the SON of GOD." Now in what respect can it be said of Christ that he was without a human father and a human mother,...

...reader ; for instance, in chap. vii. 3, this Melchisedec is said to be " without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days...unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually." In order to understand these passages correctly it is necessary that we consider, 1 . That the apostles...

...20. For this Melchizedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, without father, without mother, without descent ; having neither beginning of days,...unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. Met. vii. 1. 3. For he (Lew) was yet in the loini of his father, when Melchixedec met him. By so much...

...the clouds, and his genealogy and descent is on purpose omitted ; " without father, without mother, without descent ; having neither beginning of days,...unto the Son of God abideth a priest continually," Heb. vii. 3. Melchisedec was an illustrious type of Christ, being as a shadow to represent the eternity...

...Salem, which is King of Peace, verSe 8, withottt father, without mother, without descent, having no beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a Priest continually. Here 'it is clear, that this Melcbizedek that met Abraham and blessed him, was God, the Father and...