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Headword: Melchisedek
Adler number: mu,544
Translated headword: Melchizedek
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Priest of God and king of the Canaanites. This man founded a city on the mountain called Zion and named it Salem, which is a city of peace; in it he ruled for 113 years and then died a righteous and chaste man. He is said to be without a geneology because he was not of the line of Abraham in any way, nor did he have any pedigree at all; he was of the race of the Canaanites and he sprang from that cursed race, from which it was not right for him to have a pedigree. For it is not proper that one who has attained the height of righteousness be connected with the race at the height of injustice; therefore he is said to be fatherless and motherless. For he was clearly a Canaanite in race and being one of them he ruled and was king over the regions of the Canaanites and lived near most wicked Sodom. And Salem, which he ruled as king, is the most famed Jerusalem, for it did not yet carry the whole name of "Jerusalem", then it took also the prefix of "jeru" with "Salem" adding a syllable and with synapheia, it was called "Jerusalem".[1] He was called fatherless and motherless because he was without genealogy. But when you hear from the Melchizadekites that he was called a god,[2] remember the apostolic saying, that he is of another tribe;[3] that is, of [the] Canaanites.
Greek Original:
Melchisedek, hiereus tou theou kai basileus tôn Chananaiôn. houtos ktisas polin en tôi orei tôi legomenôi Siôn epônomasen autên Salêm, ho estin eirênês polis: en hêi basileusas etê rig# eteleutêse dikaios kai parthenos. agenealogêtos de eirêtai para to mê huparchein ek tou spermatos Abraam holôs mêde genealogeisthai to parapan, einai de Chananaion to genos kai ek tês eparatou sporas hormômenos, hothen oude genealogias êxiôto. ou gar prepôdestaton ên ton tês akras dikaiosunês epeilêmmenon sumplekein tôi tês akras adikias genei: dio kai apatora kai amêtora touton einai phasin. hoti de Chananaios ên to genos eudêlon kai aph' hôn ekratei kai ebasileue klimatôn tôn Chananaiôn kai hois eplêsiaze ponêrotatois Sodomois. kai mentoi kai hê Salêm, hês hupêrche basileus, hê poluthrullêtos Hierousalêm estin, oudepô to holon onoma pherousa tês Hierousalêm, ek prosthêkês de tês hierou meta tên Salêm proslambanousa sullabên kai kata sunapheian onomastheisa Hierousalêm: dia de to agenealogêton legetai apatôr kai amêtôr. hotan de akousêis para tôn Melchisedekitôn, hoti theos onomazetai, mnêsthêti tou Apostolikou, hoti heteras geneas esti: toutestin Chananaiôn.
Notes:
George the Monk, Chronicon 1.102.1-103.2; 103.25ff. See also mu 545, mu 546, and Genesis 14.18-20 LXX.
[1] In Greek, "Jeru" is "hierou", which means "holy". Salem has a listing at sigma 54.
[2] The Melchizadekites (*melxisedekianoi/ or, as here, *melxisedeki=tai) were "members of a sect holding Melchizedek to be or represent a divine power": Lampe s.v., citing e.g. Epiphanius, Panarion (PG 41.972a).
[3] Hebrews 7:13: in other words, he was a foreigner but only a human being.
Keywords: aetiology; biography; Christianity; chronology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2000@15:25:38.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (modified translation, added note and keywords) on 5 December 2003@00:46:55.
Catharine Roth (added another cross-reference) on 5 December 2003@00:50:14.
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David Whitehead (augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 5 December 2003@03:42:32.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 5 December 2003@13:12:54.
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