A53678:1722
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.
VER. 24.
But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable Priesthood.
IN opposition unto what was observed in the Levitical Priests, the contrary is here affirmed of the Lord Christ. And the Design of the Apostle is still the same, namely, to evince by all sorts of Instances his Preeminence as a Priest above them as such also.
1. The Person spoken of is expressed by [Greek or Hebrew]. The Exceptive Conjunction, [Greek or Hebrew] but, 1answereth unto [Greek or Hebrew] before used, and introduceth the other member of the Antithesis. [Greek or Hebrew]; Hic, ille, iste; He of whom we speak, namely, Jesus, the Surety of the New Testament. We render it, this man, not improperly; he was the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Nor doth the calling of him this man, exclude his Divine nature; for he was truly a man, though God and man in one Person. And the things here ascribed unto him, were wrought in and by the humane nature, though he that wrought them were God also: But He; or this man, who was represented by Melchizedek, of whom we speak.