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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
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If therefore Perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood, (for under it the People Received the Law) what farther need was there that another Priest should rise after the Order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the Order of Aaron.
If therefore Perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood, (for under it the People Received the Law) what farther need was there that another Priest should rise after the Order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the Order of Aaron.
The first thing in the words is the Introduction of the ensuing Discourse and Argument, in those particles of Inference, [Greek or Hebrew], if therefore. If things be 1as we have declared. He had a peculiar Scope and Design in all those things. These he is now introducing. The Improvement of his whole preceding Discourse, and the whole Mystery of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, he will now make an Application of unto the great cause he had in hand. He hath proved by all sorts of Arguments that the Priesthood of Melchizedek was Superior unto that of Aaron. Before he had evinced that there was to be another Priest after his Order; and this Priest must of necessity be greater than all those who went before him of the Tribe of Levi, in as much as he was so, by whom he was represented before the Institution of that Priesthood. Now he will let the Hebrews know whither all these things do tend in particular, and what doth necessarily follow from, and depend upon them. This he lays the Foundation of in this Verse, and declares in those following. And that they might consider how, what he had to say, was educed from what he had before proved, he introduceth it, with these Notes of Inference, [Greek or Hebrew], if therefore. And to comprehend the meaning of these words in general, with the Design of the Apostle in them, we may observe,
The first thing in the words is the Introduction of the ensuing Discourse and Argument, in those particles of Inference, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, if therefore. If things be