as also he says in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

saying, If indeed blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee:

For if that first covenant had been faultless, a place would not have been sought for the second.

By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and went out, not knowing whither he goes.

For you know that, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance even though having sought it diligently with tears.