17For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
As he saith also in another place, 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:)
And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Called of God an high priest 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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