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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 10 › Section 21: §. 21. Of Scriptures foretelling what Christ did.
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 means whereby Christ came to know the will of God concerning himself, is th•s included in a Parenthesis (in the volume of thy Book it is written of me.)
THe means whereby Christ came to know the will of God concerning himself, is th•s included in a Parenthesis (in the volume of thy Book it is written of me.)
There be that translate the phrase here used by the Apostle, in the beginning. And to make the Apostle to agree with the Psalmist, they translate the Hebrew word ain the beginning; but without any sufficient warrant. They say that the Apostle in this Text, hath reference to this clause, in that first Psalm, His delight is in the Law of the Lord. And that thereupon, he useth this phrase, In the beginning of thy Book, But it it most evident, that the Psalmist there speaketh indefinitely of any righteous man, and not particularly of Christ himself. The root of the Hebrew word signifieth, ⟨p. 438⟩to role up a thing round: thence the bnoun used by the Psalmist is derived, and • nifieth a role of paper, or parchment wound up. For of old, both the Hebrews and other people, were wont to enter their records, and such other things, as they would have preserved, in parchment, which they rolled up as our Court Rolls use to be. Such an one was that wherein Baruch wrote what Jeremiah delivered unto him, Jer. 36. 2. &c. Such an one was that which contained the curses against swea•ers and Thieves. Zach. •. 1, 2. And such an one was that which was offered to Ezekiel to eat,