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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 76: §. 76. Of the Coherence of the seventh Verse.
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.
It may also have a fit reference to that which followeth in the 8th verse; and that as an evidence of the infinite disparity betwixt Angels and Christ: which the Apostle proveth by a third Argument, taken from the high sovereignty of Christ, in the verses following. In this verse there is one part of the dissimilitude or disparity betwixt Christ and Angels. The other parts are in the 8th and 9th verses. The disparity is this▪ Angels are minister; but Christ a Lord and King. The adversative particle bBUT, in the beginning of the 8th verse (which is a note of an assumption, or of opposition) importeth this latter reference.
It may also have a fit reference to that which followeth in the 8th verse; and that as an evidence of the infinite disparity betwixt Angels and Christ: which the Apostle proveth by a third Argument, taken from the high soveraignty of Christ, in the verses following. In this verse there is one part of the dissimilitude or disparity betwixt Christ and Angels. The other parts are in the 8th and 9th verses. The disparity is this▪ Angels are minister; but Christ a Lord and King. The adversative particle bBUT, in the beginning of the 8th verse (which is a note of an assumption, or of opposition) importeth this latter reference.
- b[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
In this preface (of the Angels he saith) there is some ambiguity in the particle translatedc OF, For properly and usually it signifieth TO: But it apparent in the Text quoted that he speaketh not to Angels. For he useth not the second but the third person: The Apostle therefore imitateth the Hebrew, who put the