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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 46.

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Name or Title?

Name or Title?—Was "Melchizedek" the name of the priest of God Most High who met Abraham, or was it his title? If what is said in Heb. 7:3, "without descent," "without genealogy" (R.V.), pertains solely to his office, by parity of reasoning, the term Melchizedek pertains to the order of priesthood. And this is also made clear. Melchizedek is composed of two words, Melchi, king, and zedek, righteousness, just as Pharaoh is a general title of Egyptian kings, meaning the representative of the sun god. Every priest in that order bore the title Melchizedek, King of Righteousness, and was both priest and king.