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A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1680
Exegesis of chapter 7 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2, 3: Ver. 1, 2, 3.
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.
1. The Names themselves with their Interpretation. 2. The Grounds or Reasons of the Apostle's Arguing from this Interpretation of Names. 3. What is intended in them, or what he would have us Learn from them. 4. Their Order which he particularly Observes.
First,
1. He respecteth his Proper Name, that is, Melchizedek. For the Fancy of 1some that Sedec was a place or City where first he Reigned, as he did afterwards at Salem, is very fond. For then he must be utterly without a Name belonging unto his Person, which the Apostle doth not observe, as he would have done one way or other, had any such unusual thing offered it self unto him. Besides had it been so, he would not have been called Melchizedek, but said to be Melch Sedec, as he is said to be Melec Salem. [Greek or Hebrew]-. is a King, and by the Interposition of Yod to smooth the Composition, the former Saegol is turned into Patha, and the latter into Schevah, whence Melchi ariseth. Some would have this Yod to be a Pronoun ⟨p. 112⟩Affix, and then the meaning of the word is my King; and on this Supposition, taking [Greek or Hebrew] for [Greek or Hebrew] Sedek for Saddik; they would render it, my Righteous King. But there is nothing more Ordinary in the Composition of Names than the Interposition 2of Yod paragoricum, to soften the Sound and Pronunciation of them. So is it in Adonisedek, Adonibezek, Abimelech, Achitob, Abishua, Abishag, Abishalom, and sundry others. Wherefore Malchi is nothing but the Name Melek a King, a little varied to fit it unto the Composition intended. [Greek or Hebrew] is Righteousness. And so the whole Name is properly Interpreted and rendered by our Apostle [Greek or Hebrew] a King of Righteousness.