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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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But yet all this doth not suffice to have the Lord Christ called the Minister of this Tabernacle. This indeed is that which he ministereth for, but it is not that which he ministereth by. The Tabernacle and the things contained in it were the means of worship, and that which was materially employed in divine service, which the Catholic Church answereth not unto. Neither was the Tabernacle of Old which is here alluded unto, a Type of the Church, but of Christ himself.
But yet all this doth not suffice to have the Lord Christ called the Minister of this Tabernacle. This indeed is that which he ministreth for, but it is not that which he ministreth by. The Tabernacle and the things contained in it were the means of worship, and that which was materially employed in divine service, which the Catholick Church answereth not unto. Neither was the Tabernacle of Old which is here alluded unto, a Type of the Church, but of Christ himself.
3. Most Expositors take the Tabernacle, as they do the Sanctuary, for Heaven it self. And they would have the word true by a Zeugma to belong unto the Sanctuary, as well as unto the Tabernacle, which we have also before allowed. But yet this proveth not, that the Sanctuary and the Tabernacle must be the same, though both be equally true in the same sense. This way go the Greek Expositors, as Chrysostom, Theophylact and Oecumenius on the Place. And because this Tabernacle is said to be fixed of God, Chrysostom reproacheth them who say, that the Heavens do move and are Spherical, though he never had a prophetical dream of the Copernican Hypothesis. But yet as Beza well observes, they forsook ⟨p. 191⟩their own interpretation on Chap. 9. 11, 12. where the Tabernacle is spoken of in the same sense that here it is.
3. Most Expositors take the Tabernacle, as they do the Sanctuary, for Heaven it self. And they would have the word true by a Zeugma to belong unto the Sanctuary, as well as unto the Tabernacle, which we have also before allowed. But yet this proveth not, that the Sanctuary and the Tabernacle must be the same, though both be equally true in the same sense. This way go the Greek Expositors, as Chrysostome, Theophylact and Oecumenius on the Place. And because this Tabernacle is said to be fixed of God, Chrysostome reproacheth them who say, that the Heavens do move and are Spherical, though he never had a prophetical dream of the Copernican Hypothesis. But yet as Beza well observes, they forsook