A53678:1847
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.
And in the first place the necessity of such an High Priest as is here described, is 1expressed by [Greek or Hebrew]; Became us. Decuit, decebat. It was meet, it was just for us, as the Syriac renders it. And respect may be had therein either unto the wisdom of God, or unto our state and condition, or unto both; such an High Priest it was meet for God to give, and such an High Priest it was needful that we should have. If the condecency of the matter, which lies in a contrivance of proper means unto an end, be intended, then it is God who is respected in this word; If the necessity of the kind of Relief mentioned be so, then it is we who are respected.
And in the first place the necessity of such an High Priest as is here described, is 1expressed by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Became us. Decuit, decebat. It was meet, it was just for us, as the Syriack renders it. And respect may be had therein either unto the wisdom of God, or unto our state and condition, or unto both; such an High Priest it was meet for God to give, and such an High Priest it was needful that we should have. If the condecency of the matter, which lies in a contrivance of proper means unto an end, be intended, then it is God who is respected in this word; If the necessity of the kind of Relief mentioned be so, then it is we who are respected.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
The word is applied unto God in this very case, Chap. 2. ver. 10. It became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things. Consider God as the Supreme Ruler and Governor of the world, as the first cause and last end of all, and it became, was necessary unto his infinite Wisdom and Holiness that having designed the bringing of many sons unto Glory, he should make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. So the Condecency here intended may respect, (1.) The Wisdom, Grace and Goodness of God. It became him to give us such an High Priest as we stood in need of; namely, one that was able in the Discharge of that Office to save all to the uttermost that come unto God by him. For to design our salvation by an High Priest, and not to provide such an one, as was every way able to effect it, became not the Wisdom and Grace of God.