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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.
3. Of this Command or Law, it is affirmed that there is an [Greek or Hebrew], and that with some earnestness. [Greek or Hebrew]; For truly, verily, certainly. This whatever 1it be, it came not to pass of its own accord, but it was made by him who had Power and Authority so to do, which must be the Lawgiver.
3. Of this Command or Law, it is affirmed that there is an 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and that with some earnestness. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; For truly, verily, certainly. This whatever 1it be, it came not to pass of its own accord, but it was made by him who had Power and Authority so to do, which must be the Lawgiver.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
[Greek or Hebrew], may respect a Law, as was before intimated, either on the Account of 1the Lawgiver, him that hath power over it, or of those unto whom it is given as a Law, and who are under the Power of it. In the latter sense [Greek or Hebrew], is to Transgress a Law, to make it void what lies in us, by contemning the Authority of him by whom it is given; that use of the word was before observed in Mark. 7. 9. Heb. 10. 28. In the first sense it is directly opposed unto [Greek or Hebrew]: That is, the giving, presenting, and promulgating of a Law, by a just and due Authority, whence it hath a power and force to oblige unto Obedience. [Greek or Hebrew] is the Dissolution hereof. The Word, as was said even now, is once more used in the New Testament, and that by our Apostle in this Epistle, chap. 9. 26. Christ hath appeared [Greek or Hebrew], to put away sin, say we, by the Sacrifice of himself. That is to the abrogation or abolishing of that power, which Sin hath by its guilt to bind over sinners unto Punishment. So the [Greek or Hebrew] of the Law is its Abrogation, in taking away all its power of obliging unto Obedience or Punishment. The Apostle elsewhere expresseth the same Act by [Greek or Hebrew]