With bread and wine Melchisedek, the priest of the most high God, received Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the Gentiles Gen. xiv. 18.. That table pre-imaged this mystical table, just as that priest was a type and image of Christ, the true high-priest Lev. xiv.. For thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek Ps. cx. 4.. Of this bread the show-bread was an image Text, εἰκόνιζον. Variant, εἰκονίζουσι.. This surely is that pure and bloodless sacrifice which the Lord through the prophet said is offered to Him from the rising to the setting of the sun Mal. i. 11..