A53678:1705
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.
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.
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.
Moreover as what the Apostle affirms here of Christ hath respect unto what he had before observed concerning Melchisedec, 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.
The words therefore have three things in them in General.
1. The state and Condition of the Levitical Priests by reason of their mortality, ver. 23. This he observes because he is not declaring the Dignity of Christ and his Priesthood absolutely, but with respect unto them; whose state therefore was the Antithesis in the Comparison.