A53678:1619
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.
By so much was Jesus made a Surety of a better Testament.
[Greek or Hebrew], By so much answers directly to [Greek or Hebrew], ver. 20. in as much. There is therefore an immediate connection of these words unto that verse. Hence ver. 21. wherein a confirmation is interserted of the principal Assertion, is justly placed in a Parenthesis in our Translation.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉, By so much answers directly to 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ver. 20. in as much. There is therefore an immediate connexion of these words unto that verse. Hence ver. 21. wherein a confirmation is interserted of the principal Assertion, is justly placed in a Parenthesis in our Translation.
So the sense of the Words is to this purpose: And in as much as he was not made a Priest without an Oath, he is by so much made the Surety of a better Testament.