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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 20, 21, 22: VER. 20, 21, 22.
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VER. 20, 21, 22.
THE Apostle had warned the Hebrews before, that he had many things to say, and those not easy to be understood concerning Melchizedek. And herein he intended not only those things which he expresseth directly concerning that Person and his office, but the things themselves signified thereby in the Person and Office of Christ. And therefore he omits nothing which may from thence be any way represented. So from that one Testimony of the Psalmist he makes sundry Inferences unto his purpose. As,
THE Apostle had warned the Hebrews before, that he had many things to say, and those not easie to be understood concerning Melchisedec. And herein he intended not only those things which he expresseth directly concerning that Person and his office, but the things themselves signifyed thereby in the Person and Office of Christ. And therefore he omits nothing which may from thence be any way represented. So from that one Testimony of the Psalmist he makes sundry Inferences unto his purpose. As,
1. That the Lord Christ was to be a Priest, which included in it the cessation of the Levitical Priesthood, seeing he was of the Tribe of Judah, and not of the Tribe of Levi.