“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.”
Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever — Melchizedek's lack of genealogical record is read as an absence of priestly succession markers. The phrase about perpetual existence suggests an unrecorded beginning and end. The resemblance to the Son of God establishes Melchizedek as a type of Christ, without origin or terminus, eternal in his priesthood.
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