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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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1. When any were of Old designed to be Types of Christ, there was a Necessity that things more Excellent and Glorious should be spoken or intimated of them, than did properly belong unto them. So many things are here observed of Melchizedek, which were not properly and literally fulfilled in him. And so there are likewise of David and Solomon in sundry places. And the Reason is, because the things so spoken were never intended of them absolutely, but as they were designed to Represent the Lord Christ, unto whom alone they did truly belong. And in the Exposition of such Typical Prophecies, the utmost Diligence is to be used in distinguishing aright what is absolutely spoken of the Type only, and what is spoken of it merely as Representing Christ himself.
1. When any were of Old designed to be Types of Christ, there was a Necessity that things more Excellent and Glorious should be spoken or intimated of them, than did properly belong unto them. So many things are here observed of Melchisedec, which were not properly and literally fulfilled in him. And so there are likewise of David and Solomon in sundry places. And the Reason is, because the things so spoken were never intended of them absolutely, but as they were designed to Represent the Lord Christ, unto whom alone they did truly belong. And in the Exposition of such Typical Prophecies, the utmost Diligence is to be used in distinguishing aright what is absolutely spoken of the Type only, and what is spoken of it meerly as Representing Christ himself.
2. All that might be spoken so as to have any probable Application in any sense unto Things and Persons Typically, coming short of what was to be fulfilled in Christ, the Holy Ghost in his Infinite Wisdom supplied that defect by Ordering the Account which he gives of them so, as more might be apprehended and learned from them than could be expressed. And where the Glory of his Person as vested with his Office could not be Represented by positive Applications, it is done by a Mystical Silence, as in this Story of Melchizedek. And the most Eminent and Glorious things assigned unto Types as such, have a more Glorious signification in Christ than they have in them. See to this purpose our Exposition on Chap. 1. ver. 5.