A53678:1905
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. XXVII.
Who needeth not daily, &c.
VVho needeth not dayly, &c.
The words are a Negation as they respect our High Priest, and include an Affirmation with respect unto the Priests of the Law, both in sundry instances. And the design of them is to exclude all those Imperfections from him, which they were subject unto. And we may observe in the words.
1. The manner of the negation, [Greek or Hebrew], He needeth not; it is not necessary 1for him. The things expressed were not such as those Priests might do, or omit as they saw occasion; but they were necessarily obliged unto them. And the necessity the Apostle intends, was not only that which arose from Gods Institution, who appointed them to offer daily, first for themselves and then for the People, but that also which arose from their own state and condition, and from the nature of the sacrifices that they offered. For themselves being weak, infirm, and sinful, and their offerings being only of earthly things that could never perfectly expiate sin, these things were necessary for them, and so God had ordained. Wherefore there