A53678:1383
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.
2. For the manner of the proceeding of the Lord Christ from that Tribe, the Apostle expresseth it by [Greek or Hebrew], He sprang; [Greek or Hebrew] is usually taken in an 1active sense, to cause to rise, Mat. 5. 45. [Greek or Hebrew], he causeth his Sun to rise. And sometimes it is used Neutrally, for to rise; and so as some think it peculiarly denotes the rising of the Sun, in distinction from the other Planets. Hence is [Greek or Hebrew], the East, from the rising of the Sun. So the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is called the rising of the Sun of Righteousness with healing in his wings, Mal. 4. 2. [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 1. 78. The day-spring from on high. Thus did the Lord Christ arise in the light and glory of the Sun, a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the Glory of his People Israel. But the word is used also to express other springings; as of Water from a Fountain, or a Branch from the Stock. And so it is said of our Lord Jesus, that he should grow up as a tender Plant, and as a Root out of a dry Ground, Isa. 53. 2. A Rod out of the Stem, and a Branch out of the Roots of Jesse, Chap. 11. 1. Hence he is frequently called the Branch, and the Branch of the Lord, Isa. 4. 2. Jer. 23. 5. Chap. 33. 15. Zech. 3. 8. Chap 6. 12. But the first, which is the most proper sense of the words, is to be regarded; he arose eminently and illustriously from the Tribe of Judah.
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