11If 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 Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. …
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-28)Observe the necessity there was of raising up another priest, after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of Aaron, by whom that perfection should come which could not come by the Levitical priesthood, which therefore must be changed, and the whole economy with it, Heb. 7:11 , 12 Here, I. It is asserted that perfection could not come by the Levitical priesthood and the law. They could n…
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