For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

This becomes all the more plain when another priest emerges resembling Melchizedek,

one who has become a priest by the power of an indissoluble Life and not by the law of an external command;