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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
Exegesis of chapter 7 › Exegesis of verses 15, 16, 17: VER. 15, 16, 17.
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.
Hence he adds, that it is [Greek or Hebrew], magis patet: abundantius manifestum, 1comparatively with what was said before; of an abundant Efficacy for Conviction; that, whose light nothing can stand against. But we must observe that the Apostle doth not compare the things themselves absolutely with one another, and so determine that one is of a more evident Truth than the other; but he compares them only with respect unto the Evidence in arguing unto his End. There is more immediate force in this Consideration to prove the Cessation of the Levitical Priesthood, that another Priest was to rise after the Similitude of Melchizedek, than was merely in this, that our Lord sprang of the Tribe of Judah; but of this afterwards.
Hence he adds, that it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, magis patet: abundantius manifestum, 1comparatively with what was said before; of an abundant Efficacy for Conviction; that, whose light nothing can stand against. But we must observe that the Apostle doth not compare the things themselves absolutely with one another, and so determine that one is of a more evident Truth than the other; but he compares them only with respect unto the Evidence in arguing unto his End. There is more immediate force in this Consideration to prove the Cessation of the Levitical Priesthood, that another Priest was to rise after the Similitude of Melchisedec, than was meerly in this, that our Lord sprang of the Tribe of Judah; but of this afterwards.
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