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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.
The comparison here made betwixt Christ and Angels, is not a mere simple comparison, thus, Christ is more excellent then Angels: but it is comparatively propounded as a comparison of a comparison: thus, Christ is aso much better then Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name. This comparative comparison much sets out the transcendency of the point; that he is beyond all comparisons, even infinitely better.
The comparison here made betwixt Christ and Angels, is not a meer simple comparison, thus, Christ is more excellent then Angels: but it is comparatively propounded as a comparison of a comparison: thus, Christ is aso much better then Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name. This comparative comparison much sets out the transcendency of the point; that he is beyond all comparisons, even infinitely better.
- a[Greek or Hebrew], See Chap. 7. v. 22. §. 93.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, See Chap. 7. v. 22. §. 93.
The word translated bmade, is sometimes used declaratively, to show that the thing spoken of is so and so: as, where it is said, when Jesus WAS in Bethany: and sometimes efficiently, as where it is said, Jesus was made an high Priest. Howsoever this word in relation to Christs deity, cannot be taken but in the first sense only declaratively; yet in regard of his humane nature, and of his Person (consisting of both natures,) and of his Offices, it may be taken in both senses: for in those three respects he was advanced, and made so and so excellent. Now the Apostle speaks of him, not simply as God, but as God-man, King, Priest and Prophet. Thus it is fitly and truly translated being made, namely by his Father who begat him, sent him into the world, and advanced him above all the world.