A53678:2172
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 High Priest on the great day of Expiation perfected his Sacrifice for his own sin, and the sins of the people without the Tabernacle. But yet he neither could nor would, nor ought to have attempted the offering of it, had it not been with a design to carry the blood into the holy place, to sprinkle it before the Ark and Mercy-seat, the Throne of Grace. So was Christ to enter into the holy place not made with hands, or he could not have been a Priest.
The reason of this Assertion and Concession is added in the latter part of the Verse, Seeing there are Priests that offer Gifts according to the Law.1
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
[Greek or Hebrew], Sacerdotibus existentibus, cum sint Sacerdotes, whereas there are Priests. The Apostle doth not grant that at that time when he wrote this Epistle, there were legal Priests de jure, offering Sacrifices according to the Law. De facto indeed there were yet such Priests ministering in the Temple which was yet standing. ⟨p. 200⟩But in this whole Epistle, as to right and acceptance with God, he proves that their Office was ceased, and their administrations useless. Wherefore [Greek or Hebrew] respects the legal Institution of the Priests, and their right to officiate then when the Lord Christ offered his Sacrifice. Then there were Priests who had a right to officiate in their Office, and to offer Gifts according to the Law.