Here (ωδε). In the Levitical system.

There (εκε). In the case of Melchizedek.

Of whom it is…

And here men that die receive tithes. Another point showing the inferiority of the Levitical priesthood. Those who thus received tithes, t…

“Here,” under the Levitical economy, dying men receive the various tithes. Men enter by birth into a state with which this right is associated, and…

Thus the old priesthood, the Levitical and Aaronic priesthood, paid homage to the Melchisedec priesthood, which is greater still.

In the Levitical system, those who receive tithes eventually die. But in the Melchizedek episode, tithes are received by one who is “living.” Melch…

Of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. He takes the silence concerning his death, as I have said, as evidence of his life. This would not…

And here men that die receive tithes ,
&c,] The priests and Levites were not only men, and mortal men, subject to de…

That High Priest who should afterward appear, of whom Melchizedec was a type, must be much superior to the Levitical priests. Observe Abraham's gre…

Having shown how Melchizedek was likened to the Son of God, the Apostle now shows the preeminence of Melchizedek’s priesthood over the Levitical. R…