A53678:1108
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.
The Description of the Persons in whom he Instanceth is in those words, The Sons of Levi who receive the Office of the Priesthood. It was the Priests directly 1whom he intended, or the Sons of Aaron; and he might have so expressed it, the Priests according to the Law. But he varieth his expression for sundry Reasons that appear in the Context.
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1. Because all the Levites did receive Tithes by the Law, yea, Tithes in the first place was paid unto them in common. But because their Dignity among the People was less conspicuous than that of the Priests; and the design of the Apostle is not merely to argue from the giving of Tithes unto any, but the giving of them unto them as Priests, as Abraham gave Tithes of all to Melchizedek as Priest of the High God, he thus expresseth it, The Sons of Levi, who receive the Office of the Priesthood. For though all the Sons of Levi received Tithes, yet all of them did not receive the Priesthood, with which sort of Persons alone he was concerned.
1. Because all the Levites did receive Tithes by the Law, yea, Tithes in the first place was paid unto them in common. But because their Dignity among the People was less conspicuous than that of the Priests; and the design of the Apostle is not meerly to argue from the giving of Tithes unto any, but the giving of them unto them as Priests, as Abraham gave Tithes of all to Melchisedec as Priest of the High God, he thus expresseth it, The Sons of Levi, who receive the Office of the Priesthood. For though all the Sons of Levi received Tithes, yet all of them did not receive the Priesthood, with which sort of Persons alone he was concerned.