“And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:”
Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office — the succession of Levitical priests demonstrates their fundamental weakness: death forced replacement; none could serve perpetually. The mortality of the old priesthood reveals its insufficiency.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 7:23
“And inasmuch as not without an oath.” What is “And inasmuch as not without an oath”? That is, Behold another difference also. And these things were not merely promised (he says). “For those priests were made without an oath,” Hebrews 7:21-22 “but This with an oath, by Him that said to Him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.” He lays down two points of difference,…
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