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Edwards on Melchizedek, the Priest-King of Salem Edwards on Melchizedek, the Priest-King of Salem
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Edwards on the Types within the Story of Melchizedek Edwards on the Types within the Story of Melchizedek
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Edwards’ Canonical Reading of the Priesthood of Melchizedek Edwards’ Canonical Reading of the Priesthood of Melchizedek
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4 A Priest Forever after the Order of Melchizedek
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Published:November 2015
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Abstract
This more focused chapter on Edwards’ exegesis of the priesthood of Melchizedek in Genesis 14, Psalm 110, and Hebrews 5–7 offers a prime example of Edwards’ typological exegesis and the important role it played in his harmonization of the Bible. Christian preachers seldom speak about Melchizedek today, for it is difficult to deal with this arcane biblical figure but by dabbling in canonical exegesis. He appears in three diverse parts of Scripture, written in three different genres, only the last of which interprets the other two comprehensively. The former texts are mysteries when studied on their own. Christian interest in Melchizedek tapered off dramatically as historicism chastened Christian readings of the Bible. But Edwards’ thoroughly canonical approach to sacred Scripture enabled him to retrieve Melchizedek again, and to feature him as a major type of Christ.
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