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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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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.
4. Neither yet doth he rest here, but observes moreover the manner how God in the Testimony insisted on, declared his purpose of making the Lord Christ a Priest which was constitutive of his Office; and that was by his Oath. And thence takes occasion to manifest how far his Priesthood is exalted above that under the Law. This is that which now lies before us in these verses. And we have in these things an Instance given of what unsearchable stores of Wisdom and Truth are laid up in every parcel of the word of God, if we have a spiritual light in their Investigation.
4. Neither yet doth he rest here, but observes moreover the manner how God in the Testimony insisted on, declared his purpose of making the Lord Christ a Priest which was constitutive of his Office; and that was by his Oath. And thence takes occasion to manifest how far his Priesthood is exalted above that under the Law. This is that which now lyes before us in these verses. And we have in these things an Instance given of what unsearchable stores of Wisdom and Truth are laid up in every parcel of the word of God, if we have a spiritual light in their Investigation.