Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually .
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Gill's Exposition
Without father, without mother, without descent,.... Which is to be understood not of his person, but of his priesthood; that his father was not a priest, nor did his mother descend from any in that…
Barnes' Notes
Without father - The phrase “without father” - ἀπάτωρ apatōr - means literally one who has no father; one who has lost his father; one who is an orphan. Then it denotes one who is born after the…
Adam Clarke
Without father, without mother - The object of the apostle, in thus producing the example of Melchisedec, was to show,
1. That Jesus was the person prophesied of in the 110th Psalm; which psalm the…
The foregoing chapter ended with a repetition of what had been cited once and again before out of Psa 110:4, Jesus, a high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. Now this chapter is as a…
Cambridge Bible
without father, without mother, without descent Rather, "without lineage" or "pedigree" as in Heb 7:6. The mistake is an ancient one, for in consequence of it Irenæus claims Melchisedek as one who had…
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