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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.
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2. Some say that there is no singular thing herein, but that it is done according to the Custom of Scripture, which relates only the Genealogies of the Patriarchs, who were of that Linage from whence Christ did come. But when it makes mention of any others, though they be never so eminent, it reckoneth not up their Genealogy. Thus it dealeth with Jethro the Father-in-law of Moses, and with Job, so great and Holy a Person, concerning whom it says no more, but that there was a Man in the Land of Uz Named Job. And some things may be allowed herein. But the Instances are no way parallel. For Jethro, he was a stranger unto the Church, and there is a full Account concerning him, so far as it is either Necessary or Useful, that we should in point of story know any thing of him. And the story of Job, is a separate story wherein himself only and Family was concerned; and we have therein his Country, the Number and Names of his Children, with the Years of his Life, and time of his Death. But as we have none of these things in the Account of Melchizedek, so he is introduced as one in whom the Church of God was Publicly concerned. Wherefore,
2. Some say that there is no singular thing herein, but that it is done according to the Custom of Scripture, which relates only the Genealogies of the Patriarchs, who were of that Linage from whence Christ did come. But when it makes mention of any others, though they be never so eminent, it reckoneth not up their Genealogy. Thus it dealeth with Jethro the Father-in-law of Moses, and with Job, so great and Holy a Person, concerning whom it says no more, but that there was a Man in the Land of Uz Named Job. And some things may be allowed herein. But the Instances are no way parallel. For Jethro, he was a stranger unto the Church, and there is a full Account concerning him, so far as it is either Necessary or Useful, that we should in point of story know any thing of him. And the story of Job, is a separate story wherein himself only and Family was concerned; and we have therein his Countrey, the Number and Names of his Children, with the Years of his Life, and time of his Death. But as we have none of these things in the Account of Melchisedec, so he is introduced as one in whom the Church of God was Publickly concerned. Wherefore,