A53678:1095
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
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.
[Greek or Hebrew] he gave them; yet not arbitrarily, but in the way of a Necessary Duty, not as an Honorary respect, but as a Religious Office. And he gave thus [Greek or Hebrew], 1that is, [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew] the Tithe-portion, delivering it up unto his Use and Disposal as the Priest of the most High God. And this Tenth was [Greek or Hebrew], as the Apostle Interprets the passage in Moses, of the Spoils of War. [Greek or Hebrew] is acervus, ⟨p. 124⟩2an heap of Corn or any Useful things; [Greek or Hebrew] is the top of the Heap, the best of it, from whence the First-fruits were taken for Sacred Services. And because it was the Custom of all Nations afterwards to dedicate or devote some Portion of what they got in War unto Religious Services, the word it self came to signify the Spoils of War. At first it was the portion that was taken out of the whole, and afterwards the whole it self was signified by it. Now although Abraham had reserved nothing unto himself of what belonged unto the King of Sodom and his Companions, yet the Army and King which he had newly slain and destroyed having smitten sundry other Nations, Gen. 14. 5, 6, 7. and dealt with them as they did with Sodom and the other Towns, took all their Goods and Provision, ver. 11. being now in their return home and laden with Prey, it fell all into the hand of the Conqueror; The Tenth part of the Spoils in every kind, might probably be a very great Offering both for Sacrifice and Sacred Dedication in the place where Melchizedek Ministered in his Office. What farther concerns the Greatness of this Man, the Apostle farther declares in the ensuing Verses, where it will fall under Consideration. From this one Instance of Abraham's paying Tithes unto him, it is in a great measure already evinced.
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