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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 35: §. 35. Of Heaven the place of Christs exaltation.
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.
§. 35. Of Heaven the place of Christs exaltation.
The place, where Christ is exalted, is here indefinitely set down to be on high. Though the word be but of the positive degree, yet is it to be understood of the highest degree that can be: so high as none higher. Therefore the superlative degree is elsewhere used to set out the very same place that is here meant: as where the Angels say, Glory to God in the HIGHEST. The Apostle, to show that this place, and withal this dignity whereunto Christ was exalted, far surpasseth all other, useth a compound word, which is not throughout all the new Testament1 used, but in this only case: and it implieth an exaltation above all other exaltations. The word is used Phil. 2. 9. It may be thus translated, super-exalted. Our English, to express the emphasis of that compound word, useth these two words, highly exalted. If ever any were highly exalted, much more Christ. Therefore other translators thus express the foresaid emphasis, exalted into the highest height. 2The word is used to set out the highest exaltation that can be, even beyond all expression or comprehension.
THe place, where Christ is exalted, is here indefinitely set down to be on high. Though the word be but of the positive degree, yet is it to be understood of the highest degree that can be: so high as none higher. Therefore the superlative degree is elsewhere used to set out the very same place that is here meant: as where the Angels say, Glory to God in the HIGHEST. The Apostle, to shew that this place, and withall this dignity whereunto Christ was exalted, farre surpasseth all other, useth a compound word, which is not throughout all the new Testament1 used, but in this only case: and it implieth an exaltation above all other exaltations. The word is used