Post by ResLight on Jun 20, 2021 22:13:39 GMT -5
In a Facebook group, someone asked if any scripture gives an example of anyone who was begotten who did not have a beginning referring to the trinitarian claims related to Colossians 1:15. Someone presented Hebrews 7:3 as supposedly being such an example.
Hebrews 7:3 - Weymouth New Testament
with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry: having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made a type of the Son of God--this man Melchizedek remains a priest for ever.
This speaks of Melchizedek as a priest. There is no earthly lineage, no earthly beginning, from which his priesthood is attached. As such, Melchizedek provides a type of the priesthood of Jesus. This is not speaking of the man, Melchizedek, himself, but of Melchizedek as a priest. If this is applied to the human being himself, it would mean that the man Melchizedkek was never begotten at all, not that that he was begotten and yet did not have a beginning. It would mean that Adam was not the first man, since the man Melchizedek would have been in existence for all eternity past.
Jesus had no earthly father from which he obtained a priesthood, and his priesthood will never end. Jesus' priesthood, not being of an lineage begun here on earth, has no earthly beginning. Thus, Jesus' priesthood is after the manner (order) of Melchizedek. -- Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:11,17,21.
Jesus did not glorify himself as priest, for we read: “Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest.” (Hebrews 5:5) The scriptures say that Jesus is “named by God a high priest after the order (manner, fashion, Greek, Taxis, Strong’s Greek #5010) of Melchizedek.” -- Hebrews 5:6,10.
Ellicott tells us:
I have a study related to Hebrews 7:3 at:
jesusnotyhwh.blogspot.com/2017/06/heb7-3.html
Ellicott's comments on Hebrews 7:3 may be found at:
www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/ebc/hebrews-7.html#verse-3
For studies related to Creation and Jesus' Beginning:
jesusnotyhwh.blogspot.com/p/jesus-and-creation.html
Hebrews 7:3 - Weymouth New Testament
with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry: having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made a type of the Son of God--this man Melchizedek remains a priest for ever.
This speaks of Melchizedek as a priest. There is no earthly lineage, no earthly beginning, from which his priesthood is attached. As such, Melchizedek provides a type of the priesthood of Jesus. This is not speaking of the man, Melchizedek, himself, but of Melchizedek as a priest. If this is applied to the human being himself, it would mean that the man Melchizedkek was never begotten at all, not that that he was begotten and yet did not have a beginning. It would mean that Adam was not the first man, since the man Melchizedek would have been in existence for all eternity past.
Jesus had no earthly father from which he obtained a priesthood, and his priesthood will never end. Jesus' priesthood, not being of an lineage begun here on earth, has no earthly beginning. Thus, Jesus' priesthood is after the manner (order) of Melchizedek. -- Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:11,17,21.
Jesus did not glorify himself as priest, for we read: “Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest.” (Hebrews 5:5) The scriptures say that Jesus is “named by God a high priest after the order (manner, fashion, Greek, Taxis, Strong’s Greek #5010) of Melchizedek.” -- Hebrews 5:6,10.
Ellicott tells us:
Without father, without mother, without descent. — The last words, “without descent” (or rather, without genealogy), throw light on the meaning of those which precede. Not because we find no mention of the parents of Melchizedek is he thus spoken of as fatherless and motherless, but because he is suddenly introduced as priest, without any token whatever that he held the office by right of genealogy, the only claim familiar to Hebrew readers. It is not necessary to adduce proof of the care with which inquiry was made into the parentage of the Jewish priests (Nehemiah 7:64): in their marriages they were subject to strict restraints (Leviticus 21:13-14); their statement of pedigree (in which was given the name not of father only, but also of every mother) must be complete, ascending to Aaron, and containing no doubtful link. He who is a priest “like Melchizedek” holds a priesthood that rests on no such rights or claims. The words that follow are of similar character. No commencement and no close of priestly position or function are recorded in the sacred history. As the Scripture is silent as to his reception of the office, so also as to any transmission of it to another. In these respects “made like (as a divinely ordained type) unto the Son of God,” he bears perpetually the character of priest.
I have a study related to Hebrews 7:3 at:
jesusnotyhwh.blogspot.com/2017/06/heb7-3.html
Ellicott's comments on Hebrews 7:3 may be found at:
www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/ebc/hebrews-7.html#verse-3
For studies related to Creation and Jesus' Beginning:
jesusnotyhwh.blogspot.com/p/jesus-and-creation.html
