the way) interchanges [confounds] good and evil, truth and falsehood. — aafavsiav, infirmity) which is sinful and to be expiated by sacrifices.
3. A/a ravryv, on account of this) Supply infirmity : or ravryv, this, is put for the neuter, as in Matt. xxi. 42.
4. Ka/, and) The apostle here commences a discussion on the actual (very) priesthood of Christ. — r/c, any) Levitical priest. — rw TI^V, honour) The priesthood is an honour. Its synonym is fio'Ja, glory, ver. 5. — Adp&v, Aaron) received it by being called.
5. 'Apxisp'ea,, High Priest) So Christ is often called ; and yet at the same time often, and presently at ver. 6, He is termed a priest (simply). He is a priest absolutely, because He stands alone in that character without an equal. He is High Priest in respect of the Aaronic type, and in respect of us, whom He has made priests by His access to God and guidance of us. — 6
vpbg alrov, He ivho spoke to Him) vK "IDS HilT, Ps. ii. 7. my Son) The apostle does not mean that the Father conferred the honour of the priesthood on the Son at the time, when the Father said, Thou art my Son ; for the generation of the Son is certainly prior to His priesthood : but declares, that the Son, who can do nothing of Himself, and who is always under the authority of the Father and does only what the Father wills, and receives only what the Father gives, has also received from the Father the honour of the priesthood, of which none but the Son Himself was capable. Hence the connection, %a8uc, as, in the following verse. In this manner David had (treated) his sons (as) priests [Engl. "Vers., chief rulers], i.e. admitted to terms of closest intimacy. 2 Sam. viii. 18, with the Scholia of Michaelis : and the name of Son and Priest, quoted from the Psalms in ver. 5, fi, is presently afterwards repeated ver. 8, and ch. vii. 3, 28.
6. *Ev sr'sp'j), in another) So Paul also, Acts xiii. 35. — Xsy?i, He says) GOD. — <n)) Ps. ex. 4, where the LXX. have it in as many words. — Ms\%i<ted£x, Melchisedec) It is of no importance to know in other respects who Melchisedec was, beyond what is mentioned of him ; nay, the very silence respecting the other parts of his history contains mysteries. He was certainly a king and priest at that time, and of the human race.