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grows out of · a priest forever
A thousand years after Genesis 14, David sings of a figure who is both at God's right hand and a priest after the order of Melchizedek — reopening a single, brief encounter as prophecy.
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Hebrews quotes Psalm 110:4 repeatedly. Because the psalm names a priesthood outside Levi, priesthood was always going to change hands.