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Law and Priesthood are Linked
Commentators unanimously explain that the Old Testament law and the Levitical priesthood were inseparable. Therefore, when God established a new and better priesthood in Jesus Christ, the law associated with the old priesthood necessarily had to change as well. As one scholar puts it, the one could not stand without the other.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 7:12
18th Century
Theologian
For the priesthood being changed. According to the prediction in Psalm 110 that it would be. When that occurs, the specified consequence w…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 7:12
The priesthood being changed (μετατιθεμενης της ιεροσυνης). Genitive absolute with present passive participle of μετατιθημ, old wo…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 7:12
19th Century
Bishop
This verse connects itself with the parenthesis in Hebrews 7:11. For if the priesthood is changed there takes place also of necessity a change …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 7:12
19th Century
Preacher
The law of the priesthood alters because the person of the priest, the character of the priest, and the very office of the priest had also altered.…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 7:12
The link between the priesthood and the law meant that a change in the one involved a change in the other. The author is speaking of a change from …
John Calvin
On Hebrews 7:12
16th Century
Theologian
For the priesthood being changed, or, transferred, etc. Since the authority of the Law and the priesthood is the same, Christ bec…
John Gill
On Hebrews 7:12
17th Century
Pastor
For the priesthood being changed
Not translated from one tribe, family, or order, to another, but utterly abolished;…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 7:11–25
17th Century
Minister
The priesthood and law, by which perfection could not come, are abolished; a Priest has risen, and a dispensation is now established, by which true…