A53678:1415
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.
VER. 16.
This Verse containeth an Illustration and Confirmation of the foregoing Assertion, by a Declaration of the way and manner how this other Priest, who was not of the Seed of Aaron, should come unto that Office. And this was necessary also for the prevention of an Objection, which the whole Discourse was obnoxious unto. For it might be said, that whatever was affirmed concerning another Priest, yet there was no way possible, whereby any one might come so to be, unless he were of the Family of Aaron. All others were expressly excluded by the Law. Nor was there any way or means ordained of God, any especial Sacrifice instituted whereby such a Priest might be dedicated, and initiated into his Office. In prevention of this Objection, and Confirmation of what was before declared, the Apostle adds,
This Verse containeth an Illustration and Confirmation of the foregoing Assertion, by a Declaration of the way and manner how this other Priest, who was not of the Seed of Aaron, should come unto that Office. And this was necessary also for the prevention of an Objection, which the whole Discourse was obnoxious unto. For it might be said, that whatever was affirmed concerning another Priest, yet there was no way possible, whereby any one might come so to be, unless he were of the Family of Aaron. All others were expressely excluded by the Law. Nor was there any way or means ordained of God, any especial Sacrifice instituted whereby such a Priest might be dedicated, and initiated into his Office. In prevention of this Objection, and Confirmation of what was before declared, the Apostle adds,
Who was made, not after the Law of a Carnal Commandment, but after the Power of an Endless Life.