Christian Science teaches that the priesthood of Melchisedec, as recorded in Hebrews 7:14—28; 8:1, distinctly prefigures the life, character, and work of the Christ, forever maintained as the highest expression of divine Principle, God, and to whom Paul refers in his epistle to the Ephesians as "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.