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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 inferiority of Angels to Christ being sufficiently proved in the former verses, the Superiority and dignity of Christ is further prosecuted in the six verses following.
THe inferiority of Angels to Chriist being sufficiently proved in the former verses, the Superiority and dignity of Christ is further prosecuted in the six verses following.
The first particle BUT, importeth an opposition betwixt this that is here set down, and that which went before; For the dominion of Christ is here opposed to the subjection of Angels.
The Son here meant is that very Son of God, of whom mention was made before, v. 2. 5, 6. See §. 15, 49, 51.
The Sonne here meant is that very Sonne of God, of whom mention was made before, v. 2. 5, 6. See §. 15, 49, 51.
This phrase he saith, is not in the original; yet of necessity to be understood, to make the sentence perfect. The learned languages when they have occasion in divers sentences together to use the same verb, account it an elegance to leave it out in the latter clauses. It is here to be taken in the same sense wherein it was taken, v. 6, 7. and it implieth that there is as good proof of the dignity of Christ as there was of the inferiority of Angels, even divine testimony; God that testifieth the one testifieth the other: He saith of the one as well as He saith of the other.