1
The Syriac compiler closes by stating that this was the manner of Malki-Tsedeq’s life as received in the attributed account.
2
The attribution to Athanasius belongs to the later manuscript frame and is not accepted as the authorship of the underlying story.
3
The compiler says that ascetics sought disclosure of Malki-Tsedeq’s ancestry because some had treated him as the unique Son of Elohim.
4
The genealogy was supplied in order to affirm that his human descent existed even though it was not recorded in the Torah passage. Sefer Kehunat Malki-Tsedeq™ 6
5
The surviving Syriac forms disagree over the names of his parents and therefore cannot establish those names with certainty.
6
What the common narrative preserves is his human house, his refusal of image-sacrifice, his seven-year separation, his meeting with Avraham, and his priestly offering of bread and wine.
7
Here the complete Syriac narrative stream closes.