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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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2. The Revelation of the Will of God, in things relating unto his Worship, is very difficultly received, where the minds of Men are prepossessed with Prejudices and Traditions. Notwithstanding all those ways whereby God had revealed his mind concerning the Abolition of the Mosaical Institutions, yet these Hebrews could neither understand it nor receive it, until the whole Seat of its Worship was destroyed and Consumed.
2. The Revelation of the Will of God, in things relating unto his Worship, is very difficultly received, where the minds of Men are prepossessed with Prejudices and Traditions. Notwithstanding all those ways whereby God had revealed his mind concerning the Abolition of the Mosaical Institutions, yet these Hebrews could neither understand it nor receive it, untill the whole Seat of its VVorship was destroyed and Consumed.
3. The only Securing Principle in all things of this Nature, is to preserve our Souls in an entire Subjection unto the Authority of Christ, and unto his alone.
The Close of the Verse gives an especial Reason of the disannulling or abrogation of the Command, taken from its own Nature and Efficacy. For there is verily a disannulling of the Commandment going before; [Greek or Hebrew], that is, [Greek or Hebrew]. The Adjective in the Neuter Gender put for 1a Substantive, which is Emphatical; as on the contrary it is so, when the Substantive is put for the Adjective; as 1 John 2. 27. [Greek or Hebrew], is true, and is not a lye; that is, mendax, false or lying. And [Greek or Hebrew], its own, is added to show that the principal cause of disannulling the Law was taken from the Law it self.