and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;
but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'
and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')
by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,
and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,
and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there `he', who is testified to that he was living,