A53678:1937
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
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3. This Insinuation not only enervates, but is contradictory unto the principal Design of the Apostle in the verse foregoing and in that which follows. For, ver. 26. He, on purpose describes our High Priest by such Properties and Qualifications as might evidence him to have no need to offer for his own sins, as those other Priests had. For from this consideration that he was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, the Apostle makes this Inference, that he needed not to offer for himself as those High Priests did. But according unto this interpretation, no such thing ensues thereon; but notwithstanding all those Qualifications he had need to offer for his own sins. And, ver. 28. the Difference he puts between him and them is this, that they were men Subject to infirmities, but he is the Son consecrated for ever; which apparently exempts him from any necessity of offering for himself. For as is apparent from the Antithesis, he was not subject unto any of those infirmities which made it necessary unto them, to offer for themselves. Wherefore the whole design of the Apostle in these verses is utterly perverted and overthrown by this Interpretation.
4. When those priests offered for their own sins, their sins were of the same nature with the sins of the People. If the Priest that is anointed, shall sin after the manner of the People, Levit. 4. 3. If therefore this be to be repeated [Greek or Hebrew], this he did when he offered for his own sins and of the People, sins being only expressed in the first place and understood in the later, sins properly so called must be intended, which is the height of Blasphemy.
4. When those priests offered for their own sins, their sins were of the same nature with the sins of the People. If the Priest that is anointed, shall sin after the manner of the People, Levit. 4. 3. If therefore this be to be repeated 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this he did when he offered for his own sins and of the People, sins being only expressed in the first place and understood in the later, sins properly so called must be intended, which is the height of Blasphemy.