A53678:2090
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. 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 ⟨p. 191⟩their own interpretation on Chap. 9. 11, 12. where the Tabernacle is spoken of in the same sense that here it is.
But besides the Reasons that shall be given immediately for another interpretation, two things will not comply with this. For (1.) There is no reason why the Apostle should express the same thing, first under the name of the Sanctuary, and then of a Tabernacle. (2.) There is no especial Reason why it should be added peculiarly concerning the Heavens, which God hath fixed, and not man; for this was never questioned.