A53678:1311
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 Introduction of this clause by the Particle [Greek or Hebrew], may be on a double Account, 1which though different, yet either of them is consistent with this Interpretation of the words. (1.) It may be used in a way of Concession of all the Advantages that the Levitical Priesthood was accompanied withal; be it, that together with that Priesthood the People also received the Law. Or (2.) On the other side, there is included a Reason, why Perfection was not to be attained by that Priesthood; namely, because together with it, the People were brought into Bondage under the Yoke of the Law. Either way the whole Law is intended. But the most probable Reason of the Introduction of this Clause by that Particle, for, was to bring in the whole Law into the same Argument, that Perfection was not attainable by it. This the Apostle plainly reassumes, ver. 18, 19, concluding as of the Priesthood here, that it made nothing Perfect. For it is the same Law, which made nothing perfect, that was given together with that Priesthood, and not that especial Command alone whereby it was instituted.
The Introduction of this clause by the Particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, may be on a double Account, 1which though different, yet either of them is consistent with this Interpretation of the words. (1.) It may be used in a way of Concession of all the Advantages that the Levitical Priesthood was accompanied withal; be it, that together with that Priesthood the People also received the Law. Or (2.) On the other side, there is included a Reason, why Perfection was not to be attained by that Priesthood; namely, because together with it, the People were brought into Bondage under the Yoke of the Law. Either way the whole Law is intended. But the most probable Reason of the Introduction of this Clause by that Particle, for, was to bring in the whole Law into the same Argument, that Perfection was not attainable by it. This the Apostle plainly reassumes, ver. 18, 19, concluding as of the Priesthood here, that it made nothing Perfect. For it is the same Law, which made nothing perfect, that was given together with that Priesthood, and not that especial Command alone whereby it was instituted.
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