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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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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, John 3. 13. namely, he was so in his Divine Nature; so whilst he was dead in the Earth in his Humane Nature, the same Person was alive in his Divine. Absolutely therefore, nor in respect of his Office, he had neither Beginning of Days nor end of Life.
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 Melchisedec. 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, John 3. 13. namely, he was so in his Divine Nature; so whilst he was dead in the Earth in his Humane Nature, the same Person was alive in his Divine. Absolutely therefore, nor in respect of his Office, he had neither Beginning of Days nor end of Life.