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4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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 Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
If 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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Some have called this psalm David’s creed , almost all the articles of the Christian faith being found in it; the title calls it David’s psalm , for in the believing foresight of the Messiah he both praised God and solaced himself, much more may we, in singing it, to whom that is fulfilled, and therefore more clearly revealed, which is here foretold. Glorious things are here spoken of Christ, and…
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