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An Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul and of the Catholic Epistles, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

John MacEvilly’s exposition of the Pauline and Catholic Epistles offers a clear, Catholic, passage-by-passage interpretation of the text. It combines traditional exegesis with moral exhortation and so has been widely used as a daily devotional. The work was originally intended for laymen, but quickly found a place as a textbook in seminary education and has seen numerous editions.

24. But Christ, on account of his eternity, has a priesthood eternal, and incommunicable to any one by way of succession. Christ’s priests are only his vicars, not his successors. The Apostle, in these verses, explains the words of the Psalm, “for ever,” to which he briefly alluded, verse 16. “Everlasting,” in Greek, no transmissible. The difference here pointed out between the Christian and Levitical priesthood does not exclude the succession of inferior priests to each other in the New Law. The
Hebrews 7:24
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