Hebrews 5:6

6 As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 5:6

As he saith also in another place
Or psalm; namely, in ( Psalms 110:4 ) that is, the same person, even God the Father; who spake the words before cited, also expressed the following:

thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec;
that the psalm, from whence these words are taken, belongs to the Messiah, (See Gill on Matthew 22:44) and this very passage is applied unto him by the Jewish writers ^F3; and had not this been the general sense of the Jewish church at this time, the apostle writing to Hebrews would not have produced it; and it very clearly expresses the priesthood of Christ, the eternity of it, and the order according to which it was; and it being not according to the order of Aaron, but of another, shows the change of the priesthood, and so of the law; of Melchizedek, (See Gill on Hebrews 7:1)

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Moses Hadarsan apud Galatin. l. 10. c. 6. Abot R. Nathan, c. 34.

Hebrews 5:6 In-Context

4 And no man taketh this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as [was] Aaron:

5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee.

6 As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared;

8 Though he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered;