Now the Maccabean high-priests were the first to assume the title ` priests of the Most High God ' - the title anciently borne by Melchizedek.
Thou only, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father.
A god " Most High " (`elyon) was perhaps already known in Hamath.
The pseudo-Tertullian in the short treatise Against all Heresies lets us know that the being whom the Most High God came down to seek was Wisdom.
Therefore I will now beseech the Most High that he may strengthen me to the end.