in which it is impossible for Him to prove false,
we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety,
have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.
006:019 That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can
neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,
006:020 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf,
having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.
007:001 For this man, Melchizedek, King of Salem and priest of
the Most High God--he who when Abraham was returning after
defeating the kings met him and pronounced a blessing on him--
007:002 to whom also Abraham presented a tenth part of all--
being first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness,
and secondly King of Salem, that is, King of peace:
007:003 with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry:
having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made
a type of the Son of God--this man Melchizedek remains
a priest for ever.
007:004 Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham
the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.
007:005 And those of the descendants of Levi who receive the priesthood
are authorized by the Law to take tithes from the people, that is,
from their brethren, though these have sprung from Abraham.
007:006 But, in this instance, one who does not trace his origin from
them takes tithes from Abraham, and pronounces a blessing
on him to whom the promises belong.
007:007 And beyond all dispute it is always the inferior who is blessed
by the superior.
007:008 Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one
receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
007:009 And Levi too--if I may so speak--pays tithes through Abraham: