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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
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.
§. 279. Of the meaning of these words, That they without us should not be made perfect.
AN especial end why God made so great a difference betwixt former and later times is thus expressed, that they without us should not be made perfect.
By this relative, they, are meant such believers as lived and died before Christ was exhibited. Indeed this relative, they, is not expressed in the Greek; but yet necessarily understood, for the verb made perfect hath reference to the relative, athese in the beginning of the former verse.
- a[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
By this other relative, bus, (without us) are meant believing Christians.