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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.
When it is spoken of mere men, it is translated first-born. They are so called for1 order, or Honour sake.
When it is spoken of meer men, it is translated first-born. They are so called for1 order, or Honour sake.
- 1Mos est divinarum Scripturarum ut prim•genitum non eum voce•t quem fratres sequuntur, sed cum qui primus natus sit. Hier. Comment. in Mat. 1.
In regard of order, sons of men are styled first-born, simply and relatively.
In regard of order, sounes of men are stiled first-born, simply and relatively.
1. Simply, for such as first open the womb, though no other come out of the same womb, Thus is it expounded, Exod. 13. 2. In this sense Israel who at that time was Gods only Son, is styled his first-born, Exod. 4. 22. And Jesus, as born of the Virgin Mary, is thus styled, her first-born, Matth. 1. 25. 2. Relatively, in relation to others that follow after out of the same womb: as