A53678:1877
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.
3. He was to be [Greek or Hebrew], cujus felicitas & beatitas nulla vel minima adversitate 1quasi labe pollui inficique possit, saith, Schlictingius; than which a more vain Imagination, or more absurd Expression can be hardly thought on. But it is not for us to charge the Apostle with such obscurity and expressing of his Mind in such uncouth terms, never used by any others, nor by himself in any other place in such a sense or signification; Unpolluted, undefiled, that is, every way happy and blessed, not touched with the defilement of any Adversity. But the use of Adversity, is to purge and purify. And as that word doth properly signify, undefiled, unpolluted, that is, morally with any sin or evil, so it is not used in the New Testament in any other sense. See Heb. 13. 4. Jam. 1. 27. 1 Pet. 1. 4. The enquiry therefore is how this differs from [Greek or Hebrew], which contains a negation of all Moral evil. Answ. The one is, he did no evil in himself; the other, that he contracted none from any thing else, nor from any Persons with whom he conversed. This may fall out ⟨p. 257⟩sometimes. Hence the Prophet in his consternation at the Appearance of the Glory of God unto him, cried out he was undone, not only because of his own sinful defilements, but because of the uncleanness of the People among whom he dwelt. Isa. 6. 5. And on this Ground there was an Atonement of old to be made for the Holy Place and Tabernacle. Not that they had any uncleanness of their own, but because of the uncleanness of the People, and their remaining among them in the midst of their uncleannesses. Levit. 16. 16.
3. He was to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, cujus felicitas & beatitas nulla vel minima adversitate