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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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Secondly, Our next Enquiry is, Wherein Melchizedek was Typical of Christ, or what of all this belongeth unto the following Assertion that he was made like unto the Son of God; that is, so described as that he might have a great Resemblance of him.
Secondly, Our next Enquiry is, Wherein Melchisedec was Typical of Christ, or what of all this belongeth unto the following Assertion that he was made like unto the Son of God; that is, so described as that he might have a great Resemblance of him.
Answ. It is generally thought that he was so in the whole, and in every particular mentioned distinctly. Thus he is said to be without Father, and without Mother, (no mention is made of them) because the Lord Christ was in some sense so also. He was without Father on Earth as to his Humane Nature, with respect whereunto God says that he will create a New thing in the Earth, That a Woman should compass a Man, Jer. 31. 22. or Conceive a Man without Natural Generation. And he was without Mother as to his Person or Divine Nature, being the only begotten of the Father, by an Eternal Generation of his own Person. But yet it must not be denied but that on the other side, he had both Father and Mother. A Father as to his Divine, and a Mother as to his Humane Nature. But as to his whole Person he was without Father and Mother. Again, Whereas he is said to be without Genealogy, it is of somewhat a difficult application; for the Genealogy of Christ was [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew] the Roll of his Pedigree, is declared by two of the Evangelists, the one driving of it up to Abraham, the other unto Adam, as it was necessary, to manifest the Truth of his Humane Nature and the Faithfulness of God in the accomplishment of his Promises. It may be (therefore) respect is had unto those words of the Prophet, Isa. 53. 8. [Greek or Hebrew] —Who shall ⟨p. 117⟩declare his Generation; there was somewhat in his Age and Generation, by Reason of his Divine preexistence unto all, that was ineffable.