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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 11: §. 11. Of the meaning of the first Verse.
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 time wherein God declared his mind part by part and sundry ways, is here styledc the time past: whereby he meaneth all that time that passed from the beginning of the world, till the exhibition of the Son of God in the flesh. This is evident by the opposition of this phrase, in time past, to the last days mentioned in the next verse. The Greek word may thus be translated, of old; whereby is hinted such a time as should be altered. What the Apostle saith of the old Covenant, may be applied to this old time; that which is old is ready to vanish away, Heb. 8. 13. And we that live since that old time may say, Old things are past away, 2 Cor. 5. 17. This showeth that those were not times of perfection; If they had been perfect, no place should have been sought for other times. This stile of those former times, amplifieth the times whereunto we are reserved.
The time wherein God declared his minde part by part and sundry wayes, is here stiledc the time past: whereby he meaneth all that time that passed from the beginning of the world, till the exhibition of the Sonne of God in the flesh. This is evident by the opposition of this phrase, in time past, to the last dayes mentioned in the next verse. The Greek word may thus be translated, of old; whereby is hinted such a time as should be altered. What the Apostle saith of the old Covenant, may be applied to this old time; that which is old is ready to vanish away, Heb. 8. 13. And we that live since that old time may say, Old things are past away, 2 Cor. 5. 17. This sheweth that those were not times of perfection; If they had been perfect, no place should have been sought for other times. This stile of those former times, amplifieth the times whereunto we are reserved.
- c[Greek or Hebrew]. Olim. Old times.