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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 18, 19: VER. 18, 19.
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(1) The Subject spoken of is the Command; (2) Described by the Time of its giving, it went before; (3) Hereof it is affirmed, that it is disannulled; and (4) The Reason thereof is adjoined from a twofold property or adjunct of it in particular; For 1. It was Weak. 2. It was Unprofitable. (5) As unto its deficiency from its general End; it made nothing perfect; (6) Illustrated by that which took its work upon it self, and effected it throughly; the Hope brought in, by which we draw nigh unto God.
(1) The Subject spoken of is the Command; (2) Described by the Time of its giving, it went before; (3) Hereof it is affirmed, that it is disannulled; and (4) The Reason thereof is adjoyned from a twofold property or adjunct of it in particular; For 1. It was Weak. 2. It was Unprofitable. (5) As unto its deficiency from its general End; it made nothing perfect; (6) Illustrated by that which took its work upon it self, and effected it throughly; the Hope brought in, by which we draw nigh unto God.
1. The [Greek or Hebrew] or Command is of as large a signification ver. 18. as [Greek or Hebrew] the Law in ver. 19. For the same thing is intended in both the words. It is not therefore 1the peculiar command for the institution of the Legal Priesthood that is intended, but the whole System of Mosaical Institutions. For the Apostle having already proved, that the Priesthood was to be abolished, he proceeds on that Ground and from thence to prove, that the whole Law was also to be in like manner abolished and removed. And indeed it was of such a nature and constitution, that pull one pin out of the Fabric and the whole must fall unto the Ground. For the Sanction of it being, that he was cursed who continued not in all things written in the Law to do them, the change of any one thing must needs overthrow the whole Law. How much more must it do so, if that be changed, removed, or taken away, which was not only a material part of it, but the very hinge, whereon the whole observance of it did depend and turn.