Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 7:1-28
Hebrews 7:15-16 If God dwells in the heart, and is vitally united to it, He will show that He is a God by the efficacy of His operation. Christ is not in the heart of a saint as in a sepulchre, or as a dead saviour that does nothing; but as in His temple, and as one that is alive from the dead. For in the heart where Christ savingly is, there He lives and exerts Himself after the power of that endless life that He received at His Resurrection. Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections (pt.... read more
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 7:23
(23) Were many priests.—Rather, have been made priests many (i.e., in large numbers), because by death they were prevented from continuing. (Comp. Hebrews 7:8, where the thought is somewhat similar.) read more