Saturday, July 09, 2011

"Rabbi Johai prophesied that the sacrifice of bread and wine would never cease ..."

English Bishop & Martyr Saint John Fisher on Melchizedek:


"Astonishingly, Fisher also cites ancient and medieval Rabbis who declared that Melchizedek offered a sacrifice..."


Snippet from Anne Barbeau Gardiner's article Saint John Fisher -- Defender if the Priesthood. In the Spring 2011 edition of the Latin Mass magazine.

"Fisher vigorously defends the teaching that Melchizedek offered a sacrifice of bread and wine.

"He cites supporting testimonies from the Latin Fathers Jerome, Augustine, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Arnobius, and then the Greek Fathers John Damascene and Vulgarius.

"Astonishingly, Fisher also cites ancient and medieval Rabbis who declared that Melchizedek offered a sacrifice.

"Fisher refers to Rabbi Johai who lived before Christ and prophesied that the sacrifice of bread and wine would never cease, based on Judges 9:13, where God promises not to desert His wine that makes Him and men glad.

"Johai reflected: Granted that wine maketh men glad, how shall it make God glad? By the sacrifice which is made of it.

"The same rabbi said that The sacrifice of bread shall never fail, based on Psalm 72:16 (71.16): And there shall be a handful of corn [i.e., wheat] in the earth upon the top of the mountains.

"In addition, Rabbi Phinehas, who lived in the second century A.D., interpreted Psalm 109 to mean that When the Messiah comes all sacrifices shall cease, but the sacrifice of bread and wine shall never cease.

"Phinehas explained that this was the sacrifice of Melchizedek, a foreshadowing of King Messiah, for Melchi means King of the whole earth and zedek meant justice.

"Fisher brings forward two more rabbis as witnesses: Rabbi Kimhi of the twelfth century and Rabbi Solomon Rashi of the eleventh, each of whom wrote a commentary on the psalms found in an early sixteenth - century Rabbinical Bible.

"They both interpreted Psalm 71 to mean that the future sacrifice of the Messiah would be in a cake of corn [i.e., wheat].

"Fisher thus proves that the Protestants, in denying that Melchizedek offered a sacrifice, are breaking with both Jewish and Christian Tradition ..."

Some good points to ponder, huh??!! :)

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