A53678:1424
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.
(1.) With respect unto the Sacrifices which were the principal part of the consecration of Aaron unto his Office. And these may be called Fleshly on two Accounts. 1. Because of their Subject-matter, they were Flesh, or the Bodies of Beasts; as the Syriac reads these words, the Commandment of Bodies, that is, of Beasts to be Sacrificed. 2. In themselves and their Relation unto the Jewish State they reached no further than the purifying of the Flesh. They Sanctified unto the Purifying of the Flesh, as the Apostle speaks, Chap. 9. 13. And thus the whole Commandment should be denominated from the principal Subject-matter, or the Offering of Fleshly Sacrifices unto the Purifying of the Flesh.
(1.) With respect unto the Sacrifices which were the principal part of the consecration of Aaron unto his Office. And these may be called Fleshly on two Accounts. 1. Because of their Subject-matter, they were Flesh, or the Bodies of Beasts; as the Syriack reads these words, the Commandment of Bodies, that is, of Beasts to be Sacrificed. 2. In themselves and their Relation unto the Jewish State they reached no further than the purifying of the Flesh. They Sanctified unto the Purifying of the Flesh, as the Apostle speaks, Chap. 9. 13. And thus the whole Commandment should be denominated from the principal Subject-matter, or the Offering of Fleshly Sacrifices unto the Purifying of the Flesh.
(2.) It may be called Carnal, because a Priesthood was Instituted thereby, which was to be continued by Carnal Propagation only; the Priesthood appointed by that Law was confined unto the Carnal Seed and Posterity of Aaron, wherein this other Priest had no Interest.
(3.) Respect may be had unto the whole System of those Laws and Institutions of Worship, which our Apostle, as was also before observed, calls Carnal Ordinances,