A53678:1179
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.
There is in the words a Comparison and Opposition between the Levitical Priests and Melchizedek in this matter of receiving Tithes, which in general was common to them both. And we may consider in them, (1.) The Circumstances of the Comparison. (2.) The general Agreement of both sorts, which is the ground of the Comparison. (3.) The parts of the Antithesis or Opposition, or dissimilitude between them.
There is in the words a Comparison and Opposition between the Levitical Priests and Melchisedec in this matter of receiving Tithes, which in general was common to them both. And we may consider in them, (1.) The Circumstances of the Comparison. (2.) The general Agreement of both sorts, which is the ground of the Comparison. (3.) The parts of the Antithesis or Opposition, or dissimilitude between them.
The Circumstances of the Comparison are two. (1.) The manner of its Introduction, in the earnestness of the Assertion, in the Particle [Greek or Hebrew], it is as much as 1quidem or equidem, truly, verily, which is omitted in our Translation, though elsewhere the same Particle is so rendered. This moreover is the state of the Case in this matter. And the Insertion of it is proper unto an Affirmation upon a Concession, as this here is.
The Circumstances of the Comparison are two. (1.) The manner of its Introduction, in the earnestness of the Assertion, in the Particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it is as much as 1quidem or equidem, truly, verily, which is omitted in our Translation, though elsewhere the same Particle is so rendred. This moreover is the state of the Case in this matter. And the Insertion of it is proper unto an Affirmation upon a Concession, as this here is.
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