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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 2 › Section 137: §. 137. Of this phrase, Flesh and blood.
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. Properly for that part of man which covereth the bones, and is covered with skin▪ through which the veins, nerves, sinews, arteries, and other ligaments of the body do pass. Thus doth Job distinguish flesh from skin, bones, and sinews, Job 10. 11. Thus distinguished, It is a soft substance made of blood coagulated. 2. Tropically flesh is used sundry ways: As, 1. By a Synecdoche: as when it is put 1. For the whole body distinguished from a mans soul. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls, &c. the flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth, Psal. 79. 2. 2. For the person of man, consisting of body and soul. All flesh shall see the salvation of God, Luk. 3. 6. In these two respects flesh is attributed to Christ: namely in reference to his body, (1 Pet. 3. 18.) and to his whole humane nature, Joh. 1. 14. 1 Tim. 3. 16. ⟨p. 216⟩3. To a mans wife who is styled his flesh, Gen. 2. 23. and by rule of relation to a woman's husband. For man and wife are said to be one flesh, Matth. 19. 5. 4. For such as are of kin. St Paul thus styles those that were of the stock from whence he came, Them which are of my flesh, Rom. 11. 14. 5. For a neighbour. Hide not thy self from thine own flesh, Isa. 58. 7. Kinsmen and neighbours are of the same flesh: the former more near, the later more remote: therefore both are called flesh. 6. For all creatures clothed with flesh. God giveth food to all flesh, Psal 136. 25. 2. By a Metonymy, as when flesh is put 1. For corruption. That that is born of the flesh is flesh,