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Heb_5:10 is not to be separated from Heb_5:9 by a colon, and to be referred back to all that precedes, from Heb_5:7 onwards (Böhme). On the contrary, the statement connects itself closely with Heb_5:9, in that it contains an elucidation of the αἴτιος σωτηρίας αἰωνίου there found. Christ became for all believers author of everlasting blessedness, in that He was saluted (or named) of God as High Priest after the manner of Melchisedec. That is to say: In order to become the mediate cause of salvation for others, Christ must be the possessor of high-priestly dignity; but this was ascribed to Him on the part of God in the utterance from the psalm, already cited in Heb_5:6. Bengel: προσηγορία , appellatio sacerdotis, non solum secuta est consummationem Jesu, sed antecessit etiam passionem, tempore Psa_110:4.
To appoint or constitute (Casaubon: constitutus; Schulz: proclaimed, publicly declared or appointed; Stengel: declared, appointed; Bloomfield: being proclaimed and constituted) προσαγορεύειν , a ἅπαξ λεγόμενον in the N. T., never means; but only to address, salute, name.