Hebreus 7:10

10 pois, quando Melquisedeque se encontrou com Abraão, Levi ainda não havia sido gerado.^[a]

Hebreus 7:10 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 7:10

For he was yet in the loins of his father
Abraham; namely, Levi and his whole posterity; which is to be understood seminally, just as all mankind were in the loins of Adam, when he sinned and fell, and so they sinned and fell in him; and so Levi was in Abraham's loins,

when Melchisedec met him;
which, as it proves Melchizedek to be greater than Levi, and much more Jesus Christ, who is a priest of his order, which is the grand thing the apostle has in view; so it serves to illustrate several points of doctrine, in which either of the public heads, Adam and Christ, are concerned, with respect to their seed and offspring; such as personal election in Christ, an eternal donation of all blessings of grace to the elect in him, eternal justification in him, the doctrine of original sin, and the saints' crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and session in Christ, and together with him.

Hebreus 7:10 In-Context

8 No primeiro caso, quem recebe o dízimo são homens mortais; no outro caso, é aquele de quem se declara que vive.

9 Pode-se até dizer que Levi, que recebe os dízimos, entregou-os por meio de Abraão,

10 pois, quando Melquisedeque se encontrou com Abraão, Levi ainda não havia sido gerado.

11 Se fosse possível alcançar a perfeição por meio do sacerdócio levítico (visto que em sua vigência o povo recebeu a Lei), por que haveria ainda necessidade de se levantar outro sacerdote, segundo a ordem de Melquisedeque e não de Arão?

12 Certo é que, quando há mudança de sacerdócio, é necessário que haja mudança de lei.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ou "estava no corpo do seu antepassado"