Melchizedek
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Biblical priest-king of Salem, invoked as a type identifying Christ as king of peace and high priest.
Why need it be said that he alone is high priest, the only one who knows the service of God, the king of peace, Melchizedek, the most competent of all to lead the race of men?
for Salem is interpreted "peace," of which our Saviour is recorded as king, whom Moses calls "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God," the one giving the wine and the bread, the sanctified food, as a type of the Eucharist.
Adversus Judaeos
Priest of the most high God who blessed Abraham without circumcision or Sabbath, cited as evidence that priesthood predates the Mosaic law.
from where was Melchizedek named priest of the most high God, if before the priesthood of the Levitical law there were Levites who offered sacrifices to God?
In short, the patriarchs who followed were uncircumcised, as was Melchizedek, who, himself uncircumcised, offered bread and wine to Abraham — now already circumcised — as he returned from the battle.
In short, let them show, as we have already said before, that Adam kept the Sabbath, or that Abel, offering to God a holy victim, pleased him by the religion of the Sabbath, or that Enoch, translated, was a keeper of the Sabbath, or that Noah, the builder of the ark, observed the Sabbath on account of the immense flood, or that Abraham offered his son Isaac in observance of the Sabbath, or that Me …
Adversus Marcionem
Priest of the Most High who blessed Abraham, cited as the type of Christ's uncircumcised priesthood.
But the order of Melchizedek will agree with Christ, since indeed Christ is the proper and lawful high priest of God, the pontiff of an uncircumcised priesthood, then established among the nations, by whom he was rather to be received — about at some time to acknowledge both circumcision and the race of Abraham, when at last he comes, and will deem them worthy of acceptance and blessing.