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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Chapter › Section 127: §. 127. Of the sit application of Psa. 102. 25. to Christ.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Therefore Christ is more excellent then Angels.
That Christ was the Creator is here proved. That Angels are creatures was proved, v. 7. See §. 81. 86.
Against this proof concerning Christ, two things are excepted.
1. That the Title Lord is not in the Hebrew Text. 2. That the Psalm out of which the proof is taken makes no mention of Christ.
To the first I answer, that though it be not expressed, yet it is necessarily understood. For this relative Thou, must have an Antecedent. The Antecedent in the verse immediately before is God, to whom the Prophet by an Apostrophe turneth his speech, O God; and in two verses before this Title, Lord, is twice expressed. Neither is there any other Antecedent to which this relative Thou can have any show of reference. Now because the Psalmist had in the verse immediately before named God, he needed not name him again; He was sufficiently understood under this relative Thou; But the Apostle quoting this verse alone, must, to make the sense full, and to show whom he meant, insert this Title Lord. This he did the rather because the LXX (those ancient Greek Interpreters of the Old Testament, which the Greek Churches then used as we do now the English Translations) had inserted it.