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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.
5. He was really without Progenitors or Predecessors unto his Office, nor would I exclude that Mystical sense from the intention of the place, that he was without Father as to his Humane Nature, and without Mother as to his Divine.
5. He was really without Progenitors or Predecessors unto his Office, nor would I exclude that Mystical sence from the intention of the place, that he was without Father as to his Humane Nature, and without Mother as to his Divine.
6. He was a Priest without Genealogy, or Derivation of his Pedigree from the Loins of Aaron, or any other that ever was a Priest in the World, and moreover Mysteriously was of a Generation which none can declare.
6. He was a Priest without Genealogy, or Derivation of his Pedigree from the Loyns of Aaron, or any other that ever was a Priest in the World, and moreover Mysteriously was of a Generation which none can declare.
7. He had in his Divine Person, as the High Priest of the Church, neither Beginning of Days nor End of Life, as no such thing is reported of Melchizedek. For the Death which he underwent in the Discharge of his Office, being not the death ⟨p. 119⟩of his whole Person, but of his Humane Nature only, no Interruption of his endless Office did ensue thereon. For although the Person of the Son of God died, whence God is said to Redeem his Church with his own Blood, Acts 20. 28. yet he died not in his whole Person. But as the Son of man was in Heaven whilst he was speaking on the Earth,