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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.
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.
2. This Commandment is described by the Time of its giving; it is [Greek or Hebrew]; it went before, that is, before the Gospel as now preached and dispensed. It did ⟨p. 195⟩1not do so absolutely. For our Apostle shows and proves, that as to the Promise, whereby the Grace of the New Covenant was exhibited, and which contained the Substance and Essence of the Gospel, it was given 430 years before the giving of the Law, Gal. 3. 17. Wherefore the Precedency of the Law here expressed may respect the Testimony produced out of David, whereby the Apostle proves the Cessation of the Priesthood and consequently of the Law it self. For the Command was given before that Testimony, and so went before it. But it rather respects the actual Introduction of a New Priest in the Accomplishment of this Promise. For hereon the whole change and alteration in the Law and Worship pleaded for by our Apostle, did ensue.
2. This Commandement is described by the Time of its giving; it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; it went before, that is, before the Gospel as now preached and dispensed. It did ⟨p. 195⟩1not do so absolutely. For our Apostle shews and proves, that as to the Promise, whereby the Grace of the New Covenant was exhibited, and which contained the Substance and Essence of the Gospel, it was given 430 years before the giving of the Law, Gal. 3. 17. Wherefore the Precedency of the Law here expressed may respect the Testimony produced out of David, whereby the Apostle proves the Cessation of the Priesthood and consequently of the Law it self. For the Command was given before that Testimony, and so went before it. But it rather respects the actual Introduction of a New Priest in the Accomplishment of this Promise. For hereon the whole change and alteration in the Law and Worship pleaded for by our Apostle, did ensue.