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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.
2. It was usual under the Old Testament to have Names given unto Children by a Spirit of Prophecy, as to Noah, Peleg, and others, yea, it may be most of the Patriarchs. It was so also to have Mens Names changed upon some great and Solemn Occasions, as Abram was called Abraham, Sarai, Sarah, Jacob was called Israel, and Solomon, Jedediah. And whereas this was sometimes done by Divine Authority, as in the Instances mentioned, whence it was highly significant; so the People in imitation thereof, did often give other Names to themselves, or others, on some Occasion wherewith they were affected. Hence it is that we find the same Persons so frequently called by divers Names, which gives no little Difficulty in Genealogies. But where this was done by Divine Warranty, it was Doctrinal and Prophetically instructive. So was it in that great Name given unto our Lord Jesus Christ himself, namely, Immanuel, which the Evangelist remembers and gives us the Interpretation thereof, Mat. 1. 23. Now whether this Name was given to Melchizedek from his Nativity by a Spirit of Prophecy, as is most probable, or whether his Name were changed by God himself when he was Publicly called unto his Office is uncertain, and no way needful to be enquired into. But certain it is, that this Name was given him by Divine Direction, and that for the very End for which it is here used and applied by our Apostle. And no Countenance can hence be taken unto their Curiosity who seek for Mysteries out of Names and their Numbers, which for ought they know had a Casual Imposition, or that which respected some particular Occasion, whereof they are utterly Ignorant.
2. It was usual under the Old Testament to have Names given unto Children by a Spirit of Prophecy, as to Noah, Peleg, and others, yea, it may be most of the Patriarchs. It was so also to have Mens Names changed upon some great and Solemn Occasions, as Abram was called Abraham, Sarai, Sarah, Jacob was called Israel, and Solomon, Jedediah. And whereas this was sometimes done by Divine Authority, as in the Instances mentioned, whence it was highly significant; so the People in imitation thereof, did often give other Names to themselves, or others, on some Occasion wherewith they were affected. Hence it is that we find the same Persons so frequently called by divers Names, which gives no little Difficulty in Genealogies. But where this was done by Divine Warranty, it was Doctrinal and Prophetically instructive. So was it in that great Name given unto our Lord Jesus Christ himself, namely, Immanuel, which the Evangelist remembers and gives us the Interpretation thereof,