And Levi too –if I may so speak– pays tithes through Abraham:
For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.
What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.
for Levi was yet in the loins of his forefather when Melchizedek met Abraham.
Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.
Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
