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He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
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A Formal Priestly Blessing
Commentators explain that this was not a casual greeting but a formal, official act. As a priest of God, Melchizedek blesses Abram from a position of spiritual superiority, which Abram acknowledges. This priestly blessing served to publicly confirm God's unique calling and divine favor upon Abram's life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Possessor. — Literally, creator, or framer. It is a poetical word, as are also those for “delivered” and “enemie…
Baptist
And said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine en…
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16th Century
Protestant
And he blessed him. Unless these two parts of the sentence, ‘He was the priest of God,’ and ‘He blessed,’ cohere, Moses here relates nothi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he blessed him Melchizedek blessed Abram, which was one part of his office as a priest, to wish and pray for a b…
Melchizedek is spoken of as a king of Salem, supposed to be the place afterwards called Jerusalem, and it is generally thought that he was only a m…
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