A53678:2094
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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2. In answer hereunto when he was incarnate, and came into the world, it is said that [Greek or Hebrew], He fixed his Tabernacle among us, John 1. 14. that is the signification of the word which we have translated to dwell, because the Tabernacle of old was the way and means of Gods dwelling among the People, in the pledges of his gracious presence. All that old curious Structure for an Habitation for God, did only represent his taking our nature upon him, fixing his Tent thereby among men. What was the pattern of this Tabernacle showed unto Moses on the Mount we must enquire, on ver. 5.
2. In answer hereunto when he was incarnate, and came into the world, it is said that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He fixed his Tabernacle among us, John 1. 14. that is the signification of the word which we have translated to dwell, because the Tabernacle of old was the way and means of Gods dwelling among the People, in the pledges of his gracious presence. All that old curious Structure for an Habitation for God, did only represent his taking our nature upon him, fixing his Tent thereby among men. What was the pattern of this Tabernacle shewed unto Moses on the Mount we must enquire, on ver. 5.
3. He himself calleth his own Body his Temple, with respect unto the Temple at Jerusalem, which was of the same nature and use with the Tabernacle, John 2. 19, 22. And this he did, because his Body was that true substantial Temple and Tabernacle whereof he was the Minister.