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Enduring Word Bible Commentary Hebrews Chapter 7. Hebrews 7 – A Better Priesthood, a Better High Priest. Videos for Hebrews 7: Hebrews 7:1-10 – Jesus Foreshadowed. Hebrews 7:11-28 – Jesus Our Perfect Priest. A. The theme of Hebrews 7. 1.
The theme of Hebrews 7. 1. The writer to the Hebrews now explains a theme that he introduced back in Hebrews 2:17: Jesus as our High Priest. a. He began to discuss the issue in Hebrews 5:10, but had to spend some time warning these discouraged Christians about the danger of not continuing and progressing in their Christian life. b.
Hebrews 7. The doctrine of the priestly office of Christ is so excellent in itself, and so essential a part of the Christian faith, that the apostle loves to dwell upon it.
What does Hebrews chapter 7 mean? In chapter 5, the author of Hebrews began to explain how Jesus functions as humanity's ultimate, perfect High Priest. This included a reference to the mysterious Melchizedek, a figure from the Old Testament story of Abraham.
Matthew Henry's Commentary. 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; 7:1-3 Melchizedec met Abraham when returning from the rescue of Lot. His name, King of Righteousness, doubtless suitable to his character, marked him as a type of ...
MELCHIZEDEK AND JESUS. The following likenesses in type and antitype are plain: (1) The word "Melchizedek" means "King of righteousness," thus the very name becomes a title of the Lord Jesus Christ. (2) "King of Salem" means "King of peace," and thus the title of Melchizedek is another appropriate title of our Lord (Isaiah 9:6 ff; Psalms 72:7).
Study Hebrews 7 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning.
We hear no more of him; as about his origin, so about his end, Scripture is silent. And so he "abides" before the mind's eye, apart from any before or after, the type of an unchanging priesthood.
Hebrews 7:11. The apostle, having cleared his way from objections, now enters on his principal argument concerning the priesthood of Christ, and all the consequences of it with respect to righteousness, salvation, and the worship of God which depend thereon.
consecrated -- Greek, "made perfect" once for all, as in Hebrews 2:10 , 5:9 ; Consecrated as a perfected priest by His perfected sacrifice, and consequent anointing and exaltation to the right hand of the Father. Read Hebrews 7 commentary using Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.