Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hebrews 7:14
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah — Whatever difficulties have arisen since, during so long a tract of time, it was then clear beyond dispute.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah — Whatever difficulties have arisen since, during so long a tract of time, it was then clear beyond dispute.
Verse 14. _FOR IT IS EVIDENT_] As the apostle speaks here with so much confidence, it follows that our Lord's descent from the tribe of Judah was incontrovertible. The genealogical tables, both in Mat...
FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDAH - It is well known: it cannot be a matter of dispute. About the fact that the Lord Jesus was of the tribe of Judah, there could be no doubt; compare...
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...
EVIDENT. Greek. _prodelos._ See 1 Timothy 5:24. LORD. App-98. SPRANG. hath risen. Greek. _anatello._ Generally used of the sun rising. OF. with regard to. Greek. _eis_. App-104. MOSES. See Hebrews...
_evident_ "Known to all." The word (_prodçlon_) occurs in 1 Timothy 5:24-25. _our Lord_ This is the first time that we find this expression in the N.T. standing alone as a name for Christ. It is from...
ΠΕΡῚ ἹΕΡΈΩΝ אABCDE. The περὶ ἱερωσύνης of the rec. is an explanatory gloss. 14. ΠΡΌΔΗΛΟΝ, “_known to all_.” The word πρόδηλον occurs in 1 Timothy 5:24-25. The delicate shades of difference between με...
BECAUSE THE PERMANENCE OF HIS PRIESTHOOD, CONTINUED BY CHRIST, IMPLIED THE ABROGATION OF THE WHOLE LEVITIC LAW...
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...
_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...
ΠΡΌΔΗΛΟΣ (G4271) перед всеми, очевидный. Это усилительное _adj._, которое означает "совершенно очевидно" (Hughes), ΆΝΑΤΈΤΑΛΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΑΤΈΛΛΩ (G393) разворачиваться, подниматься. Это с...
THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDAH;— It may be worth remembering here, that Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Chrysostom, refer to the table made at the taxation in proof of this; and it may be considered...
_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...
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. EVIDENT, [ prodeelon (G4271)] - 'manifest before the eyes' as indisputable: a proof th...
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...
7:14 sprung (d-9) Or 'arisen.' It is a question whether the word alludes to arising, as the sun, or springing up, as a plant. 'the branch.' For 'the branch' was translated 'dayspring' by the LXX, and...
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...
EVIDENT. — That is to say, manifest before the eyes of all. SPRANG. — Better, _hath arisen out of Judah._ In every other place in the New Testament this word is applied to the rising of the sun, the l...
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...
He now proceeds to name the tribe πρόδηλον γὰρ ὅτι … “For it is evident that out of Judah our Lord has sprung, concerning which tribe Moses said nothing about priests”. With πρόδηλον may be compared δ...
The imperfection of the Levitical priesthood, and by implication of the whole Mosaic system, proved by the necessity of having a priest of another order....
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...
(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...
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...
FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDAH,.... Out of the tribe of Judah; it is certain that the Messiah was to spring from that tribe, Genesis 49:10 he was to be of the family of Jesse, and...
The apostle confirms his assertion by a particular application of it unto the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 7:14 . Πρόδηλον γὰρ ὅτι ἐξ ᾿Ιούδα ἀνατέταλκεν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν, εἰς ἥν φυλὴν οὐδὲν...
For _it is_ evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. Ver. 14. _Nothing concerning priesthood_] For when Reuben, by defiling Bilhah, lost his...
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...
_For_, or, _wherefore, the priesthood_ On account of which the law was given; _being changed, of necessity there_ must be _a change also of the law_ As if he had said, Since there is such a near relat...
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...
FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDA; OF WHICH TRIBE MOSES SPAKE NOTHING CONCERNING PRIESTHOOD....
The imperfection of the Levitical priesthood and of the Mosaic system:...
"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...
FOR IT IS EVIDENT THAT OUR LORD SPRANG OUT OF JUDA; the proof of this change of the tribe, and of what tribe he was, was undeniably evident to these Hebrews from their own genealogies, and the Roman c...
Julius Africanus The Epistle to Aristides And they ought not indeed to have been ignorant that both orders of the ancestors enumerated are the generation of David, the royal tribe of Juda.[5]...
Hebrews 7:14 For G1063 evident G4271 that G3754 our G2257 Lord G2962 arose G393 (G5758) from G1537 Judah...
Hebrews 7:14. FOR (the proof of the statement of Hebrews 7:13) IT IS EVIDENT (plain to all, an adjective found only in Paul, 1 Timothy 5:24; for proof that it is evident, see the passages in the margi...
IT IS EVIDENT (προδηλον). Old compound adjective (προ, δηλος), openly manifest to all, in N.T. only here and 1 Timothy 5:24.HATH SPRUNG (ανατεταλκεν). Perfect active indicative of ανατελλω, old c...
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 7:1. _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 al...
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...
IT IS WELL KNOWN. "Every Jew knows that the Messiah was to come from the Tribe of Judah, and that our Lord came from that tribe. But Moses did not authorize priests to come from this tribe!...
_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 7:13 Jesus was from the tribe of JUDAH rather than the priestly tribe of Levi. Yet he qualifies as the eternal high priest because he is the Davidic Messiah, called both Lord a...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 7:1 This chapter discusses Melchizedek (vv. Hebrews 7:1), highlighting points later applied to Jesus (vv....
_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...
Ephesians 1:3; Genesis 46:12; Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5
Evident [π ρ ο δ η λ on]. Obvious. See on 1 Timothy 5:24. Sprang [α ν α τ ε τ α λ κ ε ν]. Rend. hath sprung. In N. T. always of the rising of a heavenly body, sun or star, except Luke 12:54, of a clou...
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...