HEBREWS 7:1-4, C. H. Cayce We have been requested to give our views of Heb. 7:1-4. The passage refers to Melchisedec, who was king of Salem and priest of the most high God. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave to him a tenth part of the spoils. See Gen. 14.
Melchisedec was a man; see Heb. 7:4, “Now consider how great this man was.” As a man he was not without father or mother; but as a priest he was “without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” A priest after the order of Aaron, under the Levitical priesthood, was not without father or mother. The priestly office in that priesthood went from father to son, hence not without father, and not without descent. In the priestly office of Melchisedec there were none before him and none after; hence without descent. Thus it differed from the Levitical priesthood. Christ was made a high priest after the order of Melchisedec, (see Heb. 6:20) and not after the order of the Levitical priesthood. In the priestly office in which Christ officiated, there were none before Him and none since— it was “without father, without mother, without descent,” just like that of Melchisedec. The Primitive Baptist, February 23, 1909.