John Gill Commentary Hebrews 5:6

"as he saith also in another [place,] Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek." — Hebrews 5:6 (ASV)

As he says also in another place
Or psalm; namely, in (Psalms 110:4) that is, the same person, even God the Father; who spoke the words before cited, also expressed the following:

you are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec ;
that the psalm, from which these words are taken, belongs to the Messiah, (See Gill on Matthew 22:44) and this very passage is applied to him by the Jewish writers ^F3.

And had not this been the general sense of the Jewish church at this time, the apostle writing to the Hebrews would not have produced it.

And it very clearly expresses the priesthood of Christ, the eternity of it, and the order according to which it was; and it being not according to the order of Aaron, but of another, shows the change of the priesthood, and so of the law; of Melchizedek, (See Gill on Hebrews 7:1)

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: Moses Hadarsan apud Galatin. l. 10. c. 6. Abot R. Nathan, c. 34.