Add parallel Print Page Options

to whom also Abraham gave tithes of all the spoils) is by translation of his name, king of righteousness. After that, he is king of Salem; that is to say, king of peace. Without father, without mother, without kin, and having neither a beginning of his days nor yet end of his life, he is likened to the Son of God and continues a priest forever.

Consider what a man this was, to whom the patriarch Abraham gave tithes of the spoils.

Read full chapter