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A tenth (dekatēn). It was common to offer a tenth of the spoils to the gods. So Abraham recognized Melchizedek as a priest of God.
Divided (emerisen). First aorist active of merizō, from meros (portion), to separate into parts. From this point till near the end of Heb 7:3 (the Son of God) is a long parenthesis with houtos of Heb 7:1 as the subject of menei (abideth) as the Revised Version punctuates it. Philo had made popular the kind of exegesis used here. The author gives in Greek the meaning of the Hebrew words Melchizedek (King of righteousness, cf. Heb 1:8) and Salem (peace).