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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 5: §. 5. Of the Hebrews.Chapter › Section 5: §. 5. Of the Hebrewes.
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.
1. Because he came from Heber, who was pronepos, the third from Shem, Gen. 11. 10. 14, 25. Shem after the world was divided to the sons of Noah, was the first father of the blessed Seed, Gen. 9. 26. After that the whole world began again to fall from God, and rebelliously conspired to build a Tower that might keep them safe from another flood; so as God, to hinder that work confounded their Languages: but Heber separated himself from that impious society; and thereupon the name Heber was given him; which importeth a passing over, or departing from: which name was given by a prophetical prediction before the thing was done (as Noah's name was, Gen. 5. 29.) or for a memorial of his piety after he had given that proof thereof, as Israels name was, Gen. 32. 28.
1. Because he came from Heber, who was pronepos, the third from Shem, Gen. 11. 10. 14, 25. Shem after the world was divided to the sonnes of Noah, was the first father of the blessed Seed, Gen. 9. 26. After that the whole world began again to fall from God, and rebelliously conspired to build a Tower that might keep them safe from another flood; so as God, to hinder that work confounded their Languages: but Heber separated himself from that impious society; and thereupon the name Heber was given him; which importeth a passing over, or departing from: which name was given by a propheticall prediction before the thing was done (as Noahs name was, Gen. 5. 29.) or for a memoriall of his piety after he had given that proof thereof, as Israels name was, Gen. 32. 28.