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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.
As to the Argument in general, we must observe (1) That the Design of the Apostle in this place is not to demonstrate the Dignity and Eminency of the Priesthood of Christ from that of Melchizedek his Type, which he had done before sufficiently; he doth not produce the same Words and Arguments again unto the same purpose: but that which he aims at, is, from that Testimony, whereby he had proved the Dignity of the Priesthood of Christ, now also to prove the necessary Abolition of the Levitical Priesthood. Wherefore (2) He doth not insist on the whole of the Testimony before pleaded, but only on that one thing of another Priest, necessarily included therein.
As to the Argument in general, we must observe (1) That the Design of the Apostle in this place is not to demonstrate the Dignity and Eminency of the Priesthood of Christ from that of Melchisedec his Type, which he had done before sufficiently; he doth not produce the same Words and Arguments again unto the same purpose: but that which he aims at, is, from that Testimony, whereby he had proved the Dignity of the Priesthood of Christ, now also to prove the necessary Abolition of the Levitical Priesthood. Wherefore (2) He doth not insist on the whole of the Testimony before pleaded, but only on that one thing of another Priest, necessarily included therein.
2. The Subject spoken of is [Greek or Hebrew]; that is not merely [Greek or Hebrew], that is, [Greek or Hebrew] alius: as the Syriac understood it, who renders it by [Greek or Hebrew]: but it is [Greek or Hebrew] alienus, 1that is intended. Every [Greek or Hebrew] was by the Law absolutely forbidden to approach unto the Priests Office, or Altar, or Sacred employment. So [Greek or Hebrew], another in this Case is a Stranger, one that is not of the House or Family of Aaron. And nothing can be more evident than that the Levitical Priesthood and the whole Law of Divine Worship must be taken away and abolished then, if it appear that any [Greek or Hebrew], or Stranger, may be admitted into that Office; much more, if it were necessary that it should so be. For the Law of the Priesthood took care of nothing more than that no Stranger, that was not of the House of Aaron, should be called to that Office. See