A53678:1162
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
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2. The Proposition thus Modified, is, That the Less is Blessed of the Greater; that is, wherein one is orderly Blessed by another; he that is Blessed is therein less 1than, or beneath in Dignity, unto him by whom he is Blessed, as it is expressed in the Syriac Translation. Expositors generally on this place distinguish the several sorts of Benedictions that are in Use and warrantable among Men, that so they may fix on that concerning which the Rule here mentioned by the Apostle, will hold unquestionably. But as unto the especial design of the Apostle this Labour may be spared: For he treats only of Sacerdotal Benedictions, and with Respect to them, the Rule is not only certainly true, but openly evident. But to Illustrate the whole, and to show how far the Rule mentioned may be extended, we may reduce all sorts of Blessings unto four Heads.
2. The Proposition thus Modified, is, That the Less is Blessed of the Greater; that is, wherein one is orderly Blessed by another; he that is Blessed is therein less 1than, or beneath in Dignity, unto him by whom he is Blessed, as it is expressed in the Syriack Translation. Expositors generally on this place distinguish the several sorts of Benedictions that are in Use and warrantable among Men, that so they may fix on that concerning which the Rule here mentioned by the Apostle, will hold unquestionably. But as unto the especial design of the Apostle this Labour may be spared: For he treats only of Sacerdotal Benedictions, and with Respect to them, the Rule is not only certainly true, but openly evident. But to Illustrate the whole, and to shew how far the Rule mentioned may be extended, we may reduce all sorts of Blessings unto four Heads.
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