The Priest Melchizedek

Origin: Russia
Age: XIXth century. Originally painted in the XVIIth century
Composition: Tempera on wood
Measures Cms:163,3 X 48,3 X 4,6
King of Salem (Jerusalem), priest of the God The most high, who went out to receive Abraham who was returning of the defeat of the kings, and Blessed him. He had neither father nor mother, the only person that he might have been was a God himself, in the Genesis he appears and disappear from the history without previous notice, enclosed Abraham paid to him in tithes, and he blessed him, showing clearly the superiority on him. Since then the Law of the Tithe of giving 10 % of the income to the God work. In times of Czar Peter I, most of these icons were destroyed.