Theophilus to Autolycus Book II And at that time there was a righteous king called Melchisedek, in the city of Salem, which now is Jerusalem. This was the first priest of all priests[66] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews if not on the ground of equity and righteousness, (in the observance) of a natural law? Whence was Melchizedek named "priest of the most high God,"[25] Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies (without genealogy), of whom neither the beginning nor the end has been comprehended, nor can be comprehended.[88]