Hebrews 7:17
For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Contestatur enim : Quoniam tu es sacerdos in æternum, secundum ordinem Melchisedech.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- μαρτυρεῖται γὰρ ὅτι Σὺ ἱερεὺς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισέδεκ.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews, The Law Anterior to Moses
Therefore, in this general and primordial law of God, the observance of which, in the case of the tree’s fruit, He had sanctioned, we recognise en closed all the precepts specially of the posterior Law, which germinated when dis closed at their proper times. For the subsequent superinduction of a law is the work of the same Being who had before premised a precept; since it is His province withal subsequently to train, who had before resolved to form, righteous creatures. For what wonder if He extends a discipline who institutes it? if He advances who begins? In short, before the Law of Moses, written in stone-tables, I contend that there was a law unwritten, which was habitually understood naturally, and by the fathers was habitually kept. …