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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 150: §. 150. Of Christs continuance at Gods right hand.
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.
This word until though it point at a time how long Christ shall retain his dignity, yet it setteth not down a date thereof or a period thereto; For it hath not always reference to the future time as excluding it; but to that whole space of time, that is to pass to the accomplishing of the thing mentioned; including in it all that space of time, and that because the question is concerning it alone; as where Christ saith, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle, shall in no wise pass from the Law, Mat. 5. 18. his meaning is not, that the Law shall pass when heaven and earth pass away, but that so long as the world continueth the Law shall remain to be the rule of righteousness.
This word until though it point at a time how long Christ shall retain his dignity, yet it setteth not down a date thereof or a period thereto; For it hath not alwaies reference to the future time as excluding it; but to that whole space of time, that is to passe to the accomplishing of the thing mentioned; including in it all that space of time, and that because the question is concerning it alone; as where Christ saith, Till heaven and earth passe, one jot, or one tittle, shall in no wise passe from the Law, Mat. 5. 18. his meaning is not, that the Law shall passe when heaven and earth passe away, but that so long as the world continueth the Law shall remain to be the rule of righteousnesse.
This word until oft implieth rather a denial of a determination then an affirmation thereof; as 2 Sam. 6. 23. where it is said, that Michal had no child until the ⟨p. 105⟩day of her death; None will imagine that after her death she had any, but because the question of having a child must be about the time of her life▪ this phrase, Until the day of her death, is used. In the same sense a like phrase of the Virgin Mary's bringing forth the Lord Jesus is used,