"The Lord hath sworn and he will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek." This Melchisedek is mentioned in the holy Scriptures as a priest of the Most High God, not consecrated by any unction prepared of any material substance, and not even succeeding to the priesthood of the Jews, by any descent of lineage. Hence, Christ our Saviour is denominated, with the addition of an oath, Christ and priest after his own order, but not according to the order of those who received merely the badges and emblems. Hence, also, neither does history represent him anointed corporeally among the Jews, nor even as sprung from a tribe of the priesthood but as coming into existence from God himself before the morning star; that is, before the constitution of the world, obtaining an immortal priesthood, subject to no infirmity of age, to all endless ages.
From the Archæological writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmud.
