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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 Name which here is denied to belong to Angels, is thus set down, under an1 interrogation, unto which of the Angels said he, &c. This interrogation importeth a strong negation: somewhat more then if he had in a plain negative thus said, unto none of the Angels said he, &c. For hereby he putteth the matter to their consideration, and maketh them judges thereof: As if he had said, Think with your selves, and call to mind, what any where you have read in sacred Scripture; and tell me, if any such thing be spoken of an Angel therein.
The Name which here is denied to belong to Angels, is thus set down, under an1 interrogation, unto which of the Angels said he, &c. This interrogation importeth a strong negation: somewhat more then if he had in a plain negative thus said, unto none of the Angels said he, &c. For hereby he putteth the matter to their consideration, and maketh them judges thereof: As if he had said, Think with your selves, and call to minde, what any where you have read in sacred Scripture; and tell me, if any such thing be spoken of an Angel therein.
- 1The emphasis of an interrogation. See ver. 14. §. 155.
The distributive particle which (unto which,) implieth a number of Angels; and1 by way of grant, a difference of degrees: as if he had said, Grant that there are different degrees of Angels, and that some of them are more excellent then others; Yet to none of them, no not to the most excellent, said he, thou art my Son, &c.
The distributive particle which (unto which,) implieth a number of Angels; and1