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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
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.
The Connection of these words unto what was before asserted, which giveth us the 1design of the Apostle in them, is expressed in the causal Conjunction, [Greek or Hebrew], For. He both giveth a confirmation of what he had before affirmed, namely, that Christ was the Minister of the true Tabernacle, that is, of his Body, and rendereth a reason why it should so be; and this he farther confirms in the Verses ensuing.
The Connexion of these words unto what was before asserted, which giveth us the 1design of the Apostle in them, is expressed in the causal Conjunction, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, For. He both giveth a confirmation of what he had before affirmed, namely, that Christ was the Minister of the true Tabernacle, that is, of his Body, and rendereth a reason why it should so be; and this he farther confirms in the Verses ensuing.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
The Reason he insists on, is taken from the general nature of the Office of every High Priest. That the Lord Christ is our High Priest, he had sufficiently demonstrated and confirmed before; this therefore he now assumes as granted. And hereon what belongs unto him as such, he farther manifests, by showing what the nature of that Office required, and what did necessarily belong unto every one that was Partaker thereof.
The Reason he insists on, is taken from the general nature of the Office of every High Priest. That the Lord Christ is our High Priest, he had sufficiently demonstrated and confirmed before; this therefore he now assumes as granted. And hereon what belongs unto him as such, he farther manifests, by shewing what the nature of that Office required, and what did necessarily belong unto every one that was Partaker thereof.