translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET study note

text: Honor refers here to the honor of the high priesthood.


text: A quotation from Ps 110:4 .


text: There is a wordplay in the Greek text between the verbs “learned” ( ἔμαθεν , emaqen ) and “suffered” ( ἔπαθεν , epaqen ).


text: The phrase in the order of Melchizedek picks up the quotation from Ps 110:4 in Heb 5:6 .