Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 7:13
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Hebrews7:13
13 For he of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth to another tribe , of which no man gave attendance at the altar .
That this Priesthood was so altered, he proves by Christ's being of another Tribe than Levi. This is a Periphrasis describing the Priest after Melchisedec's Order. Of whom was this said in Psalm 110.4. but of Ghrist, God-Man, the Royal High-Priest of God, Matth. 21.42. He, as to his human Nature, descended of the Tribe of Iudah, and not of Levi; and so the Aaronical Priesthood was ended by him, ch. 2.14. Gen. 49.10.
Of which Tribe none was a Priest, whose work was to attend the Altar, and offer Sacrifice; if any of another Tribe pretended to, or would usurp it, God either smote them, as Vzziah, 2 Chron. 26.18. or destroyed them as those Rebels, Numb. 16.1, 2, 4, 28, to 36. neither was the Priesthood hereby made tribual, or continued in any such Tribe as in Levi, but confined to our Lord only, not because he descended of Iudah, but extraordinarily selected of God out of it to discharge it.
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