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FOR THE ONE
CONCERNING WHOM THESE THINGS ARE SPOKEN: eph on gar legetai (3SPPI) tauta
phules heteras:
It was no small thing
to categorically state that a priest could come from any other tribe than
Levi. King Uzziah had played the fool when in a moment of vanity he
attempted to usurp the Levitical role, and he was confronted by the priests
for it: (2 Chr 26:18). While Uzziah was raging at the priest, leprosy broke
out on his forehead, and he remained a leper until his death!
So the insistence that Jesus, from the tribe of Judah, was a priest was
shocking to the Hebrew ear. It was, in fact, illegal (Josephus, Antiquities,
20.10.1).
BELONGS TO ANOTHER
TRIBE FROM WHICH NO ONE HAS OFFICIATED AT THE ALTAR: tauta phules heteras metescheken (3SRAI) aph es oudeis prosescheken (3SRAI) to
thusiasterio: (Numbers 16:40;
17:5;
2 Chronicles
26:16-21) Since the Mosaic law
required that the priests should come from the tribe of Levi, a new
priesthood, not of the order of Aaron, must set aside that law. The Messiah
comes from another tribe, and not merely from another tribe, but from a
tribe which was not specially set apart for priestly service, a tribe of a
different nature in that respect from the tribe of Levi. This is made clear
by the use of heteros
As the law prescribed that
the priesthood should be of the order of Aaron, a new priesthood, not of
that order, must set aside the law. |
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FOR IT IS EVIDENT
THAT OUR LORD WAS DESCENDED FROM JUDAH: prodelon gar hoti ex iouda anatetalken (3SRAI) o kurios hemon:
(Luke 1:43;
John 20:13,28;
Ephesians 1:3;
Philippians 3:8
) (Genesis 46:12;
49:10;
Ruth 4:18-22;
Isaiah 11:1;
Jeremiah 23:5,6;
Micah 5:2;
Matthew 1:3-16;
Luke 2:23-33;
3:33;
Romans 1:3;
2:3;
Revelation 5:5;
22:16)
Evident - It is obvious; openly evident, known to
all.
Descended - literally= “has arisen"
"sprung up" = has Messianic significance in Scripture.
Mal 4:2 prophesies of
rising of “sun of righteousness.”
Nu 24:17 promises appearance of “a star…
out of Jacob”
Lu 1:78 of Christ as “the rising sun… from heaven” (cf. Rev
2:28).
2Pe 1:19 “the morning star”.
The prophets predict raising up of
righteous Branch for David (Isa 4:2 11:1; Jer 23:5ff.33:15 Zech 3:8 6:12 Rev
22:16).
A TRIBE WITH
REFERENCE TO WHICH MOSES SPOKE NOTHING CONCERNING PRIESTS: eis en phulen
ouden peri hierosunes moses elalesen (3SAAI):
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