A53678:1890
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.
[Greek or Hebrew], as may be seen in the foregoing Instances, hath a double signification; (1) Of Place. (2) Of state and condition.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as may be seen in the foregoing Instances, hath a double signification; (1) Of Place. (2) Of state and condition.
1. If it be Place that is meant, then by the Heavens which he is made above, those aspectable Heavens with all their Glory are intended. He is no longer on the Earth, ⟨p. 259⟩but exalted into a Throne of Majesty above these Heavens. So it is said that he passed through these Heavens when he went into the Presence of God, chap. 4. 14, 15. And there he abides. For although the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him as unto the Immensity of his divine Nature; yet as unto his humane Nature here spoken of, the Heavens must receive him, until the time of the Restitution of all things, Act. 3. 21. He is in this sense no more on the Earth, nor Subject unto any of those inconveniences, which his abode here below must be exposed unto. Yea, had he always continued here, he could not have been such an High Priest as became us, as our Apostle declares, chap. 8. 4.
2. [Greek or Hebrew] may respect state and condition; or the Glorious state on the right hand of the Majesty on high which he is exalted unto. And in this sense by the Heavens, than which Christ is made higher, exalted above, the Angels the sacred Inhabitants of those Heavenly Places are intended. And this our Apostle in other places often insists upon, as a great manifestation of the Glory of Christ: See