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Carson explaining how Hebrews 7 interprets Old Testament passages, especially Melchizedek in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110. The session traces the argument from textual repetition to symbolic meaning: “king of righteousness,” “king of peace,” and the priest who resembles the Son of God. Carson compares Melchizedek’s superiority to Abraham and Levi, then develops the logic of verses 11 onward regarding a needed priest “in the order of Melchizedek.”","The Book of Hebrews: Part 4 of 4  \nLecture Video Transcription  \nBy Dr. D.A. Carson  \nResearch Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School  \nNow, last day we got as far as the Old Testament texts with Melchizedek, namely Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 . Now we turn to Hebrews 7, and although we don’t have time to go through the passage in enormous detail, I want you to see what the author does with it. First, at the beginning of verse 7,“This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High.” Well, that’s simply repeating what the text says in Genesis 14, there’s nothing innovative there.“He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything…” still nothing but a summary. Then you start getting the interpretation.“First, the name Melchizedek means ‘king of righteousness.’ ” Well, we saw that already, that’s what Melchizedek means.“Then also, ‘king of Salem’ means ‘king of peace.’ ” That is, the slm radicals,“shalom,” that’s what the name of Salem means.“Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.” Now here what the author is doing is commenting on the fact that was already obvious to a reader of Genesis. That is, so far as the records go in Genesis, there’s no mention of a daddy ora mommy or a genealogy. Now, you could understand this to mean that he is absolutely without genealogical pedigree—that is to say that he is supernatural, that he really is the Son of God. But if that is what the text were saying, you’d think that what the writer would have written would have been something like,“Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, obviously he is the Son of God.” But he says he’s like the Son of God, he resembles the Son of God. In other words, the author sees that he is some kind of anticipation of, prefigurement of, standing in for. Which is why the view that is common in the history of the Church, that this is really a pre-­‐incarnate visitation of the Eternal Son, really doesn’t fit that well. He is like the Son of God, or as the NIV 2011 puts it, He resembles the Son of God. And then everything else follows.“Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!” So that is significant in that Abraham is the first patriarch of all of the Israelites, and yet this man is considered greater than Abraham.  \nAnd then it jumps to the Levitical Law regarding tithing,“The descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham. But this man did trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.” In other words, all of this establishes that in some sense he must not only be greater than Levi, but greater than Abraham, greater than the entire Israelite heritage and history. And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the  \nCopyright© 2013 Trinity International University. All rights Reserved. Terms of Use.  \ngreater.“In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die—that is, the Levites—but in the other case by him who is declared to be living.” That is, he is declared to be living in the sense that there’s no mention in a book that’s full of genealogies of births and deaths—he lives so many years and then he dies, he lives so many years and then he dies—there’s no mention of his death. And almost as if the author realizes he’s pushing the steps pretty hard, he adds one more,“One might even say that Levi, who collects a tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, because when Melchizedek made Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his Ancestor”—that is to say, there is a view of a certain solidarity in the race. 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