translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET study note

text: A series of quotations from Gen 14:17-19 .


text: A quotation from Gen 14:20 .


text: The verbs “ collected…and blessed ” emphasize the continuing effect of the past actions, i.e., Melchizedek’s importance.


text: A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20 ).


text: The Greek text contains an elaborate comparison between v. 20 a and v. 22 , with a parenthesis (vv. 20 b-21) in between; the comparison is literally, “by as much as…by so much” or “to the degree that…to that same degree.”


text: A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6, 6:20, and 7:17 ).


text: See Heb 5:2 where this concept was introduced.