A53678:1526
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.
Perfection being thus denied unto the Law, it is added [Greek or Hebrew]. The words are elliptical, and without a Supplement give no certain sense. And this may be made two ways. First, by the Verb Substantive [Greek or Hebrew], and so the whole of what is asserted is an effect of the Law. It made nothing perfect, but it was the bringing in of a better Hope, or an Introduction unto a better Hope, as some render the words. It served as Gods Way and Method unto the bringing in of our Lord Jesus Christ; unto this End it was variously Serviceable in the Church. For as its Institutions, Promises, Instructions, and Types did represent him unto the Faith of Believers; so it prepared their Minds unto an Expectation of him, and longing after him. And the Conjunction [Greek or Hebrew], which is Adversative, seems to intimate an Opposition in what the Law did, unto what it is said before that it did not. It did not make any thing Perfect, but it did bring in a better Hope; and we know in how many things it was a preparatory Introduction of the Gospel. Wherefore this sense is true, though not, as I judge, directly intended in these words.
Perfection being thus denied unto the Law, it is added 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The words are elliptical, and without a Supplement give no certain sense. And this may be made two ways. First, by the Verb Substantive 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and so the whole of what is asserted is an effect of the Law. It made nothing perfect, but it was the bringing in of a better Hope, or an Introduction unto a better Hope, as some render the words. It served as Gods Way and Method unto the bringing in of our Lord Jesus Christ; unto this End it was variously Serviceable in the Church. For as its Institutions, Promises, Instructions, and Types did represent him unto the Faith of Believers; so it prepared their Minds unto an Expectation of him, and longing after him. And the Conjunction 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is Adversative, seems to intimate an Opposition in what the Law did, unto what it is said before that it did not. It did not make any thing Perfect, but it did bring in a better Hope; and we know in how many things it was a preparatory Introduction of the Gospel. VVherefore this sence is true, though not, as I judge, directly intended in these words.