A53678:1437
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. 17.
The Proof of all before asserted is given in the Testimony of the Psalmist so often before appealed unto. For he testifieth, thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek.
The Proof of all before asserted is given in the Testimony of the Psalmist so often before appealed unto. For he testifieth, thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedec.
The Introduction of this Testimony is by [Greek or Hebrew], or he Witnesseth or Testifieth; 1that is, David doth in the Psalm, or rather the Holy Ghost speaking in and by David, doth so testify. He doth not absolutely say that so he speaks, but testifies; because he used his words in a way of Testimony unto what he had delivered. And although one thing be now principally intended by him, yet there is in these words a Testimony given unto all the especial Heads of his Discourse. As (1.) That there was to be another Priest, a Priest that was not of the Stock 2of Aaron, nor Tribe of Levi. For he says unto the Messiah Prophesied of, who was to be of the Seed of David, Thou art a Priest, although a stranger from the Aaronical Line. (2.) That this other Priest was to be after the Order of Melchizedek, ⟨p. 192⟩and was not to be called after the Order of Aaron. For he was [Greek or Hebrew], after the Order; [Greek or Hebrew] is a redundant, and not a suffix. [Greek or Hebrew] is from [Greek or Hebrew] and signifies a state or order of things; [Greek or Hebrew]