Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Ver. 4. How great this man was] It is goodness that renders a man great, and the grace of God that ennobleth, Isaiah 43:4; Hebrews 11:2. Keep close to God, and then ye shall be some of God's Rabbis, as Daniel calls them, Daniel 9:27. See Job 32:9. Great men indeed, not with a belline (war-like), but with a genuine, greatness.
The tenth of the spoils] Gr. ακροθινια, the top of the heap.