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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 33: §. 33. Of Christs advancement to 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.
As for this particular metaphor of a right hand, it is very frequently attributed to God: and that in two respects.
1. To set out his power. 2. His glory.
There is no part of the body whereby men can better manifest their power then by their right hand. By their hands they lift, they strike, they do the things which require and declare strength. Of the two hands, the right useth to be the more ready, steady and strong in acting this or that: Therefore after the manner of men, thus1 speaketh Moses of God, Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. In like manner many admirable works are in other places attributed to Gods right hand, that is, to his power.
There is no part of the body whereby men can better manifest their power then by their right hand. By their hands they lift, they strike, they do the things which require and declare strength. Of the two hands, the right useth to be the more ready, steddy and strong in acting this or that: Therefore after the manner of men, thus1 speaketh Moses of God, Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. In like manner many admirable works are in other places attributed to Gods right hand, that is, to his power.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Exod. 15. 6.