58:007:011 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical
priesthood, (for
under
it the people received the law,) what further need
was
there
that another priest should rise after the order of
Melchisedec,
and not be called after the order of Aaron?
58:007:012 For the priesthood being changed, there
is made of necessity a
change
also of the law.
58:007:013 For he of whom these things are spoken
pertaineth to another
tribe,
of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
58:007:014 For it is evident that our Lord sprang
out of Juda; of which
tribe
Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
58:007:015 And it is yet far more evident: for
that after the similitude
of
Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
58:007:016 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal
commandment, but
after
the power of an endless life.
58:007:017 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for
ever after the order
of
Melchisedec.
58:007:018 For there is verily a disannulling of the
commandment going
before
for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
58:007:019 For the law made nothing perfect, but the
bringing in of a
better
hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
58:007:020 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
58:007:021 (For those priests were made without an
oath; but this with an
oath
by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will
not
repent,
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec:)
58:007:022 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
58:007:023 And they truly were many priests, because
they were not
suffered
to continue by reason of death:
58:007:024 But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable
priesthood.
58:007:025 Wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost that
come
unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession
for them.
58:007:026 For such an high priest became us, who
is holy, harmless,
undefiled,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the
heavens;
58:007:027 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests,
to offer up
sacrifice,
first for his own sins, and then for the people’s:
for
this he did once, when he offered up himself.
58:007:028 For the law maketh men high priests which
have infirmity; but
the
word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the
Son,
who
is consecrated for evermore.
58:008:001 Now of the things which we have spoken
this is the sum: We
have
such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of
the
throne
of the Majesty in the heavens;


