Hebrews 7:16 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:16

The constitution of our great High Priest. "Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment," etc. In this verse there is a triple antithesis; law is antithetical to power, commandment to life, and carnal to indissoluble. This suggests the following observations concerning the priesthood of Jesus Christ. He became Priest— I. NOT BY THE OPERATION OF LITERAL " LAW ," BUT BECAUSE OF HIS SPIRITUAL " POWER ." Law in the text is the Levitical Law, with the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:16

The power of an endless life. We have here illustrated— I. THE FEEBLENESS OF THAT WHICH DEPENDS UPON THE FLESH . Here the particular institution is that of priesthood; but the truth obtains with regard to all institutions dependent on the limits of fleshly human nature and the faculties of fallen human nature. The law of the Jewish priesthood was a law that had to take particular notice of the limitations of human life. The office was held by a man whose term of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 7:16

Who is made - That is, the other priest is made, to wit, the Messiah. He was made a priest by a special law.Not after the law of a carnal commandment - Not according to the Law of a commandment pertaining to the flesh. The word “carnal” means “fleshly;” and the idea is, that the Law under which the priests of the old dispensation were made was external, rather than spiritual; it related more to outward observances than to the keeping of the heart. That this was the nature of the Mosaic ritual... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 7:15-17

Hebrews 7:15-17. And it is yet far more evident That both the priesthood and the law are changed, because the priest now raised up is not only of another tribe, and of a quite different order, but is made a priest; not after the law of a carnal commandment With such carnal rites and outward solemnities as the law prescribed for those priests, which reached no further than to the purifying of the flesh; but after the power of an endless life Which he has in himself as the eternal Son... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:11-28

Christ, a priest like Melchizedek (7:11-28)The necessity for a new priesthood under Christ shows that the Levitical priesthood (and with it the law of Moses) failed to bring perfection. Therefore, the new priest belongs not to Aaron’s order but to Melchizedek’s (11-12). Christ could not be a priest in the Levitical order, because he was not from the tribe of Levi. He was from Judah, a tribe that had no part in priestly affairs (13-14).Laws concerning physical birth and age determined who could... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 7:16

is made = hath become. carnal . Greek. sarkikos , but texts read sarkinos. See 2 Corinthians 3:3 . power . Greek. dunamis. App-172 .; Heb 176:1 . endless . App-151 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 7:16

Who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life; for it is witnessed of him, Thou art a priest forever After the order of Melchizedek.The Levitical priests were made after the law of a carnal commandment, being subject to sin and death like all others, nor was there in them any special excellence of character. Contrasted with their appointment is that of Christ which was after the power of an endless life, and that combined with the utmost... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 7:15-17

Hebrews 7:15-17. And it is yet far more evident;— "And, independent on all genealogical controversywhich the most ingenious malice couldurge concerning Mary's family, it is yet more abundantly manifest that the law must be changed, from the least attention to that scripture alone, so frequently mentioned, That, or inasmuch as another priest ariseth according to the similitude of Melchisedec. For, let the priesthood be in any tribe, it can continue according to the legal establishment only for... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 7:16

16. carnal . . . endless—mutually contrasted. As "form" and "power" are opposed, 2 Timothy 3:5; so here "the law" and "power," compare 2 Timothy 3:5- :, "The law was weak through the flesh"; and Hebrews 7:18, "weakness." "The law" is here not the law in general, but the statute as to the priesthood. "Carnal," as being only outward and temporary, is contrasted with "endless," or, as Greek, "indissoluble." Commandments is contrasted with "life." The law can give a commandment, but it cannot give... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 7:1-18

C. The Son’s High Priestly Ministry 7:1-10:18The great resource of Christians when tempted to apostatize is our high priest, Jesus Christ. The writer therefore spent considerable time and space expounding His high priesthood to enable his readers to benefit from their resource. This section of the book continues to glorify Jesus Christ so the readers would appreciate Him sufficiently and not turn from Him. The priesthood of Melchizedek provided an analogy, for the writer, of Jesus’... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 7:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 7:15-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:11-28

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 7:16

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 7:16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 7:15-17

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 7:16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 7:1-18

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