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Hebrews 7:16
who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Verse 16. _WHO IS MADE_] Appointed to this high office by God himself, not succeeding one that was _disabled_ or _dead, according_ _to that law_ or ordinance directed to _weak_ and _perishing_ men, wh...
WHO IS MADE - That is, the other priest is made, to wit, the Messiah. He was made a priest by a special law. NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT - Not according to the Law of a commandment perta...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The priesthood of Melchisedec in contrast with the Levitical priesthood (Hebrews 7:1)_ 2. The holy and heavenly priesthood of Christ (Hebrews 7:20) Hebrews 7:1 The interrupted argume...
THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST. It is shown that Scripture itself makes reference to a type of priesthood which is quite distinct from the Levitical. The nature of this priesthood is set forth ...
If, then, the desired effect could have been achieved by the Levitical priesthood--for it was on the basis of it that the people became a people of the law--what further need was there to set up anoth...
A PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK (Hebrews 7:1-28) We come now to a passage of such paramount importance for the writer to the Hebrews and in itself so difficult to understand that we must deal...
IS MADE. hath become. CARNAL. Greek. _sarkikos_, but texts read _sarkinos._ See 2 Corinthians 3:3. POWER. Greek. _dunamis._ App-172.; Heb 176:1. ENDLESS. App-151....
_is made_ Lit., "is become." _after the law of a carnal commandment_ Rather, "in accordance with _the law of a fleshen_(i.e. earthly) _commandment_." Neither this writer, nor even St Paul, ever called...
CH. 7. CHRIST, AS AN ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEK, IS SUPERIOR TO THE LEVITIC HIGH PRIEST Historic reference to Melchisedek (1–3). His Priesthood typically superior to that of Aa...
BECAUSE THE PERMANENCE OF HIS PRIESTHOOD, CONTINUED BY CHRIST, IMPLIED THE ABROGATION OF THE WHOLE LEVITIC LAW...
ΣΑΡΚΊΝΗΣ אABCDL. Corrected by copyists into the common word σαρκικῆς. See the note. 16. ΚΑΤᾺ ΝΌΜΟΝ ἘΝΤΟΛΗ͂Σ ΣΑΡΚΊΝΗΣ. Rather, “_in accordance with_ the law of a fleshen (i.e. earthly) commandment.” Ne...
_A PRIESTHOOD THAT BRINGS PERFECTION-- HEBREWS 7:11-19:_ If perfection, remission of sin, could have been obtained by the sacrifices offered by the Jewish priests, there would have been no need that G...
ΣΆΡΚΙΝΟΣ (G4560) плотский. Прилагательные с этим окончанием обозначают материал, происхождение или вид (МН, 359). Эта заповедь была плотской, так как касалась только плоти. Священство назначалось в за...
AND IT IS YET FAR MORE EVIDENT;— "And, independent on all genealogical controversywhich the most ingenious malice couldurge concerning Mary's family, it is yet more abundantly manifest that the law mu...
_As seen in the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood. Hebrews 7:11-19_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 7:11-19 Hebrews 7:11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it ha
THE PRIESTHOOD CHANGED (Hebrews 7:11-16) In Hebrews 5:1-9 the apostle has shown (in part, for he returns to the same theme again in Hebrews chapter 9) how Christ fulfilled that which Aaron had foresh...
And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, Another proof that the law (economy) is changed; as Christ is appointed Priest, 'not accor...
11 It would be very difficult for the Hebrews to acknowledge the failure of the Aaronic priesthood. Yet this is distinctly involved in the announcement of a priest after a different order. Had our Lor...
PRIESTHOOD AFTER THE ORDER OF AARON AND OF MELCHIZEDEK The theme of Christ's superiority to the Levitical priesthood is here resumed. In Hebrews 5:1 it has been shown that Christ possesses all the cha...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO MELCHIZEDEK 7:1-28 MELCHIZEDEK 7:1-10 V1 This Melchizedek was king of *Salem and priest of God Most High. He met...
A CARNAL COMMANDMENT. — Literally (according to the true reading of the Greek), _a commandment of flesh:_ one that is limited to the sphere of man’s nature of flesh. As such, it is bound up with disti...
AND IT IS. — That which is “yet far more evident” is the proposition of the preceding verses, viz., the failure of the Levitical priesthood to bring “perfection” (Hebrews 7:11), a failure placed beyon...
CHAPTER VII. THE ALLEGORY OF MELCHIZEDEK. Hebrews 7:1 (R.V.). "For this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed hi...
Imperfection of the Levitical priesthood more abundantly proved by contrast with the nature of the Melchizedek priest....
ὃς οὐ κατὰ νόμον … ἀκαταλύτου, “who has become such not after the law of a fleshen ordinance but after the power of an indissoluble life”. This relative clause defines the “likeness to Melchizedek,” a...
OUR EVER-LIVING AND ALL-SUFFICIENT INTERCESSOR Hebrews 7:11 If, as we saw in our last reading, the Levitical priests have been superseded, clearly the whole order of things-that is, the Mosaic covena...
The writer now takes up again the subject of the Priesthood of Jesus after the order of Melchisedek. Melchisedek is called "Priest of the Most High." His name means king of righteousness. He is called...
THE IMPERFECTIONS OF LEVI'S PRIESTHOOD If the end of God's plan for the redemption of man was to come under the Levitical priesthood, there would not have been a need for another priest of the order o...
(8) Who is made, not after the (g) law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (8) He proves the diversity and excellency of the institution of Melchizedek's priesthood, by t...
(11) 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 Melchizedek, a...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
_THINGS WHICH NEVER DIE_ ‘The power of an endless life.’ Hebrews 7:16 We talk of ends; but where are ends? It may be an end in relation to the past; but is it not a beginning in relation to somethi...
16._Carnal commandment, etc. _It was called _carnal_, because it refers to things corporal, that is, to external rites. We know how Aaron and his sons were initiated into their office. What was fulfil...
The epistle, returning to the subject of Melchizedec, reviews therefore the dignity of his person and the importance of his priesthood. For on priesthood, as a means of drawing nigh to God, the whole...
WHO WAS MADE,.... Not as man, much less as God; but as a priest, constituted and appointed one: NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT: either the ceremonial law in general, which was a carnal one...
That the Aaronical priesthood was to be changed, and consequently the whole law of ordinances that depended thereon, and that the time wherein this change was to be made was now come, is that which is...
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. Ver. 16. _Of a carnal command_] i.e. External and ceremonial. _ But after the power_] Both of God the...
Heb. 7:3-18. Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. Now consider how great...
_And it is yet far more evident_ That both the priesthood and the law are changed, because the priest now raised up is not only of another tribe, and of a quite different order, but _is made_ a priest...
A new argument is now introduced. Since the Levitical priesthood and the law were given together, as parts of one whole, so that the annulling of the one is the annulling of the other, why should God...
WHO IS MADE; constituted a priest. NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT; not with a temporary and inefficacious priesthood, corresponding with the carnal ordinances of the law under which he min...
"For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him: to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all: first bein...
11-25 The priesthood and law by which perfection could not come, are done away; a Priest is risen, and a dispensation now set up, by which true believers may be made perfect. That there is such a cha...
WHO IS MADE, NOT AFTER THE LAW OF A CARNAL COMMANDMENT; the gospel High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, was not constituted nor consecrated after that order and rule of God which did bind the Aaronical...
Hebrews 7:16 who G3739 come G1096 (G5754) not G3756 according G2596 law G3551 fleshly G4559 commandment G1785 but...
Hebrews 7:15-17. The writer now touches another point of the argument. AND IT IS YET FAR MORE EVIDENT. What is more evident? That the law is changed? as De Wette and Bleek hold. Hardly; for this is n...
CARNAL (σαρκινης). "Fleshen" as in 1 Corinthians 3:1, not σαρκικης (fleshlike, 1 Corinthians 3:3). The Levitical priests became so merely by birth.OF AN ENDLESS LIFE (ζωης ακαταλυτου). Late compou...
CARNAL Fleshy, that is, addressed to the carnal or natural man. Compare (Hebrews 9:10)....
Hebrews 7:15 I. The Apostle announces a great principle in the words, "The law made nothing perfect." There was not a single point in which the law reached the end, for the end of the law is Christ. T...
Hebrews 7:15 The Power of an Endless Life. The idea of a priesthood appears to have entered largely, if not universally, into the economy of the human race at all times. Before Christ came, men were...
Hebrews 7:1 Melchisedec a Type. I. What is meant by King? what by Priest? what is the idea of Kingship and of Priesthood? (1) The idea of Kingship was to some extent announced in the creation of Adam...
Hebrews 7:16 The Power of Christ's endless life. I. The first thought is the power which this endless life has of communicating itself. The very idea of such a life brings with it an inspiration and...
Hebrews 7:15. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of...
CONTENTS: Melchisedec as a type Christ. Comparison of Melchisedec and Aaronic priesthoods. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Melchisedec, Abraham, Levi, Aaron, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true King-P...
Hebrews 7:1. _This Melchizedec,_ to whose illustrious history he now returns, from Hebrews 5:11, was first by name or title king of righteousness, and afterwards _king of Salem,_ that is, king of peac...
HE WAS NOT. "Jesus our Lord did not become a high priest through human rules and regulations. He became a high priest through the power of his endless life, which makes it possible for him to serve fo...
_Our Lord sprang out of Juda_ A NEW PRIESTHOOD 1. Jesus sprang from the royal tribe of Judah, not from the sacerdotal tribe of Levi. The apostle intentionally uses a term that glances at Zechariah’...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 7:1 This chapter discusses Melchizedek (vv. Hebrews 7:1), highlighting points later applied to Jesus (vv....
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 7:15 THE POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead verifies his eternal priesthood (Psalms 110:4; see...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 7:11.—Here begins the argument of the next nine verses. PERFECTION.—A difficult word; the full meaning of everything that could be required of a human priesthoo...
EXPOSITION THE PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. The exposition of Christ's heavenly priesthood is now at length taken up and carried out. It extends to Hebrews 10:19, forming the central part o...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Hebrews, the seventh chapter. In the book of Genesis, after Abraham and Lot had parted company, there was a confederation of five kings that conquered in the area wh...
Colossians 2:14; Colossians 2:20; Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9;...
The law of a carnal commandment [ν ο μ ο ν ε ν τ ο λ η ς σ α ρ κ ι ν η ς]. The phrase N. T. o. Nomon the norm or standard, as Romans 7:21; Romans 7:23. Entolhv, the specific precept of the Mosaic law...
OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST Hebrews 7:1 _and Hebrews 8:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Christ was God's Priest after the order of Melchisedec. "The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for ever after...
Who is made — A priest. Not after the law of a carnal commandment — Not according to the Mosaic law, which consisted chiefly of commandments that were carnal, compared to the spirituality of the gospe...