Melchizedek's Nature and Type

He is a man sharing our passions, neither greater than Christ, nor even John the Baptist, nor is he the Holy Spirit. As for those saying that he is not greater than Christ, what kind of domain do they say he is in? Is it heavenly? Is it earthly or of the underworld?

If indeed it is a heavenly or some other domain, let them hear that every knee shall bend to him and the following verses. If, therefore, the knee bends, the one worshiping is lesser than the Christ who is being worshiped. But the talents do not know the following verse: to the one made unlike the Son of God, just as we also became like God according to the image.

But perhaps one of the listeners asks and says: why is it that he is called without father, without mother, and without genealogy? To those, we will say that the Jews have claimed he was born of a prostitute and because of this was not genealogized by the Scripture. To them, we will say: you have spoken badly. For we find also others born of a prostitute and having been genealogized: namely Solomon from Uriah, and then also Abimelech, the son of Gideon.

Why, then, is he not genealogized? Because he was a type of Christ and bore this icon; for this reason the Scripture left out his father and mother, so that in that icon we might behold the truly without-father, without-mother, and without-genealogy Christ.