Two further questions: Hosea's marriage and Melchizedek's origin
After the interlocutor's argument about Lazarus, the fragment poses two further questions for solution: whether Hosea really married a prostitute and had children by her in actual deed, and what kind of being Melchizedek was.
Did the prophet Hosea take a prostitute as his wife and beget children by her in deed and actuality? Or does he say these things understood prophetically? Or again: Is Melchizedek not simply a man, nor a spirit, but a man having no origin of his coming into being from humans, recently created by God?
Greek
Εἰ ἔλαβεν Ὠσηὲ ὁ προφήτης γυναῖκα πόρνην καὶ ἐτ
έκνωσεν ἐξ αὐτῆς
πράξει καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ, ἢ προφητικῶς νοούμενα λέγει. Εἰ ὁ Μελχισεδὲκ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος
ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ πνεῦμα, ἀλλ' ἄνθρωπος ἀρχὴν γενέσεως οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔχων ἀλλὰ
προσφάτως δημιουργηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ.