{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6672","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"As He saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedech.\" Unto whom now was this spoken?</p><p>Who is \"after the order of Melchisedech\"? No other than He. For they all were under the Law, they all kept sabbaths, they all were circumcised; one could not point out any other than Him.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 8</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"As he says also in another place.\" The \"And,\" as regards the sequence of the interpretation, is omitted.<br/>\"according to the order of Melchizedek.\" This one first offered an unbloody sacrifice to God, bread and wine.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: The reason is that Christ also offered an unbloody sacrifice, for first He offered this, and then later His own body. For this reason, it is accordingly said that Christ is a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: That Melchizedek was not anointed into the priesthood by oil, as Aaron, and that he did not offer sacrifices by blood, and that he was a high priest of the nations, and that he blessed Abraham with bread and wine.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: The meaning of the word is that if Christ himself did not offer an unbloody sacrifice (for he offered his own body), then those priests who are deemed worthy by God and the high priest will offer an unbloody sacrifice from him. For this indicates, \"forever.\" For he would not have said \"forever\" regarding the one-time sacrifice and offering made by God, but he refers to the present priests through whom Christ ministers and is ministered to, having also given them in the mystical supper the manner of such ministry.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"29dc92df40b65d1dae119ffcfef4b7c1a231da51fd08722fbb890ac31ac5ba9e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6672,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6bd07d3a862dc01f23a13b08365ce3737168c0e513ae5ec9345f3831960e0d47","translator":null,"work":null}