A41670:1748
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 2 › Section 16: §. 16. Of the reward of transgressors.
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.
Judgement executed on the wicked for their wickedness, is called a reward, because it is as due unto him, as the reward which useth to be given to a diligent and a faithful labourer is due to him.
Judgement executed on the wicked for their wickedness, is called a reward, because it is as due unto him, as the reward which useth to be given to a diligent and a faithfull labourer is due to him.
This word in Greek is used to set out that which the labourers in the Vineyard received for their labour, and is translated khire, Matth. 20. 8.
- k[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
There is another Greek word translated lwages, (the wages of sin is death, Rom. 6. 23.) which doth somewhat more fully set out the reason of this word reward, applied to workers of evil. It is taken from the allowance or pay which is given to soldiers. In this proper signification it is used, Luke 3. 14. and translated wages or allowance. It is also used