9And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
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Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
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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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