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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 138: §. 138. Of the manner of setting out Christs Immutability.
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.
The Verb whereby the constancy and immutability of Christ is set down, in Hebrew signifieth an unmoveable standing or abiding. It is applied to Idols fast fixed,1 so as they cannot be removed, Isa. 46. 7. to a Mountain, Psa. 30. 7. and to the word and counsel of God, Psa. 33. 9, 11. fitly therefore is it here used to set out Christs stability.
The Verb whereby the constancy and immutability of Christ is set down, in Hebrew signifieth an unmoveable standing or abiding. It is applied to Idols fast fixed,1 so as they cannot be removed, Isa. 46. 7. to a Mountain, Psa. 30. 7. and to the word and counsell of God, Psa. 33. 9, 11. fitly therefore is it here used to set out Christs stability.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] stelit immotus.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 stelit immotus.
The Greek word is a compound word, and the composition adds much emphasis;1 The simple Verb implieth a steady standing or abiding, but the compound a permanent or unalterable remaining to be so or so: They who observed a constant abiding of creatures in that frame wherein at first God made them, thus express it, They continue, or remain as they were,