A53678:1639
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
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2. In what is positively asserted in the words we may observe,
1. The Person who is the subject spoken of, and that is, Jesus. He had in general 1declared the nature of the Priesthood of him who was to have that Office, according to the order of Melchizedek. But he had not yet in this whole chapter, that is, from the beginning of this discourse, mentioned who that Person was, or named him. But here he makes application of the whole unto him; it is Jesus who in all these things was intended. And this he doth suitably unto his design and occasion. For two things were in question among the Hebrews. (1.) What was the Nature of the Office of the Messiah. (2.) Who was the Person. For the first of these, he proves unto them from their own acknowledged Principles, that he was to be a Priest, as also what was the nature of that Priesthood, and what would be the necessary consequents of the setting up that office in the Church, and the exercise of it: this his whole precedent discourse is designed unto. Now he asserts the second part of the difference, namely, that it was Jesus who is this Priest, because in him alone do all things concur that were to be in that Priest, and he had now discharged the principal part and Duty of that Office.
1. The Person who is the subject spoken of, and that is, Jesus. He had in general 1declared the nature of the Priesthood of him who was to have that Office, according to the order of Melchisedec. But he had not yet in this whole chapter, that is, from the beginning of this discourse, mentioned who that Person was, or named him. But here he makes application of the whole unto him; it is Jesus who in all these things was intended. And this he doth suitably unto his design and occasion. For two things were in question among the Hebrews. (1.) What was the Nature of the Office of the Messiah. (2.) Who was the Person. For the first of these, he proves unto them from their own acknowledged Principles, that he was to be a Priest, as also what was the nature of that Priesthood, and what would be the necessary consequents of the setting up that office in the Church, and the exercise of it: this his whole precedent discourse is designed unto. Now he asserts the second part of the difference, namely, that it was Jesus who is this Priest, because in him alone do all things concurre that were to be in that Priest, and he had now discharged the principal part and Duty of that Office.