January 23, 2013, Reading

The Letter to the Hebrews    7: 1-3, 15-17

7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham, as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.
7:2 And Abraham divided to him a tenth part of everything. And in translation his name is first, indeed, king of justice, and next also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
7:3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, he is thereby likened to the Son of God, who remains a priest continuously.
7:15 And yet it is far more evident that, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there rises up another priest,
7:16 who was made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the virtue of an indissoluble life.
7:17 For he testifies: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

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