Hebrews 7:18
On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
17For the words are in evidence, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek."
Cross References
Acts 13:39and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.
Romans 8:3For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;
Galatians 3:17I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.
Galatians 4:21Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?
Hebrews 7:11Now if the crowning blessing was attainable by means of the Levitical priesthood--for as resting on this foundation the people received the Law, to which they are still subject-- what further need was there for a Priest of a different kind to be raised up belonging to the order of Melchizedek instead of being said to belong to the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 8:7For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 7:12-28
Melchisedec and Christ Compared. ( a. d. 62.) 11 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? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that… Read the whole commentary →