A53678:1310
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.
This is said to be done, [Greek or Hebrew], under it; that is [Greek or Hebrew], under that Priesthood. 1But how the People may be said to receive the Law under the Levitical Priesthood, must be further enquired into. Some think that [Greek or Hebrew] in this place answers unto [Greek or Hebrew] in the Hebrew; that is, concerning it. And so the meaning o the word is; for it was concerning the Levitical Priesthood that the People received a Command; that is, God by his Law and Command Instituted the Levitical Priesthood among them, and no other during the times of the Old Testament. According unto this Interpretation, it is not the whole Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances, that is intended, but the Law constituting the Levitical Priesthood. This ⟨p. 173⟩sense is embraced by Schlictingius and Grotius, as it was before them touched on, but rejected, by Junius and Piscator. But although there be no inconveniency in this Interpretation, yet I look not on it, as suited unto the Design of the Apostle in this place. For his intention is to prove, that Perfection was not to be obtained by the Levitical Priesthood. Unto this end he was to consider that Priesthood under all its Advantages; for if any of them seem to be omitted, it would weaken his Argument; seeing what it could not do under one consideration, it might do under another. Now although it was some commendation of the Levitical Priesthood that it was appointed of God, or confirmed by a Law; yet was it a far greater Advancement that therewith the whole Law was given, and thereon did depend, as our Apostle declares in the next Verses.
This is said to be done, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, under it; that is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, under that Priesthood. 1But how the People may be said to receive the Law under the Levitical Priesthood, must be further enquired into. Some think that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in this place answers unto 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the Hebrew; that is, concerning it. And so the meaning o the word is; for it was concerning the Levitical Priesthood that the People received a Command; that is, God by his Law and Command Instituted the Levitical Priesthood among them, and no other during the times of the Old Testament. According unto this Interpretation, it is not the whole Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances, that is intended, but the Law constituting the Levitical Priesthood. This