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4236 — MELCHIZEDEK

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 16, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 48.

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4236 — MELCHIZEDEK

What is the interpretation of Melchizedek? Who was he? Could a primate from another world have any jurisdiction over the inhabitants of this world without involving the Lord in the charge of usurpation?
The interpretation of the word "Melchizedek," as given by Young, and corroborated by other authorities, is, "My king is righteousness." The word occurs but twice in the Old Testament (Gen. 14:18; Ps. 110:4). In the New Testament, it occurs in the book of Hebrews only, where the apostle Paul is discussing the priesthood. It is in the sixth and the tenth verse of the fifth chapter, in the twentieth verse of the sixth chapter, and in the first, tenth, eleventh, fifteenth, seventeenth, and twenty-first verses of the seventh chapter. All that we may know of Melchizedek is found in these verses, and it is more than probable that this is one of the things that the Bible mentions only incidentally, and which will be understood and studied much more fully in the world to come.