4Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
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And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. …
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The foregoing chapter ended with a repetition of what had been cited once and again before out of Ps. 110:4; Jesus, a high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec . Now this chapter is as a sermon upon that text; here the apostle sets before them some of the strong meat he had spoken of before, hoping they would by greater diligence be better prepared to digest it. I. The great question th…
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