I. SALEM. The Name of Salem is given to Jerusalem, Psal. lxxvi. 2: In Salem also is his Tabernacle, and his dwelling Place in Zion. The Vulgate reads, Factus est in pace locus ejus. But the Hebrew requires, Factus est in Salem locus ejus. The common Opinion is, that Melchisedech, King of Salem, was Gen. xiv. 18. Hebr. vii. 1, 2. Gen.xxxiii 18.King of Jerusalem.
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