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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 23, 24, 25: VER. 23, 24, 25.
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That he hath in these verses a respect unto Melchizedek as a Type of Christ and what we are taught thereby, is evident from the matter treated of in them. He had observed that as to the Description given of him in the Scripture, that he abideth a Priest continually, ver. 3. and that it is witnessed of him, that he lives, seeing it is no where mentioned that he died, ver. 8. and this is the last consideration of him which he improveth unto his purpose, and it is that which gives virtue and efficacy unto all the other that he had before insisted on Set this aside, and all the other, whether Advantages or Excellencies, which he had discoursed of, would be as ineffectual unto the ends aimed at, as the Law it self. For what profit could it be unto the Church, to have so excellent and glorious a Priest for a season, and then immediately ⟨p. 229⟩to be deprived of him, by the Expiration of his Office.
That he hath in these verses a respect unto Melchisedec as a Type of Christ and what we are taught thereby, is evident from the matter treated of in them. He had observed that as to the Description given of him in the Scripture, that he abideth a Priest continually, ver. 3. and that it is witnessed of him, that he lives, seeing it is no where mentioned that he died, ver. 8. and this is the last consideration of him which he improveth unto his purpose, and it is that which gives vertue and efficacy unto all the other that he had before insisted on Set this aside, and all the other, whether Advantages or Excellencies, which he had discoursed of, would be as ineffectual unto the ends aymed at, as the Law it self. For what profit could it be unto the Church, to have so excellent and glorious a Priest for a season, and then immediately ⟨p. 229⟩to be deprived of him, by the Expiration of his Office.
Moreover as what the Apostle affirms here of Christ hath respect unto what he had before observed concerning Melchizedek, so what he affirms of the Levitical Priests depends on what he had before declared concerning them, namely, that they were all mortal dying men and no more, and who actually died in their Successive Generations, ver. 8.