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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.
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.
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.
2. That he was to be Another Priest, that is, a Priest of another Order, namely, that of Melchizedek. And this he variously demonstrates to prove his Preeminence above the Aaronical Priesthood: as also thereon, that upon his Introduction that Order was utterly to cease and be disannulled.
2. That he was to be Another Priest, that is, a Priest of another Order, namely, that of Melchisedec. And this he variously demonstrates to prove his Preheminence above the Aaronical Priesthood: as also thereon, that upon his Introduction that Order was utterly to cease and be disanulled.
3. He observes from the same Testimony unto the same purpose, that he was to be a Priest for ever, so as that there should never more upon his death or otherwise be any need of another Priest, nor any possibility of the return of the former Priesthood into the Church.