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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
Exegesis of chapter 6 › Exegesis of verses 4, 5, 6: Verse 4, 5, 6.
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.
First, The Gift of God; [Greek or Hebrew], is either [Greek or Hebrew], donatio, or [Greek or Hebrew], donum. Sometimes it is taken for the Grant or giving it self, and sometimes for the thing given. In the first sense it is used, 2 Cor. 9. 15. Thanks be to God, [Greek or Hebrew], for his Gift that cannot be declared, that is, fully or sufficiently. Now this Gift was his Grant of a free, charitable and bountiful Spirit to the Corinthians, in ministering unto the poor Saints. The Grant hereof is called Gods Gift. So is the Gift of Christ used also, Ephes. 4. 7. according to the measure of the Gift of Christ, that is, according as he is pleased to give and grant of the fruits of the Spirit unto men; see Rom. 5. 15, 17. Ephes. 3. 7. sometimes it is taken for the thing given; properly [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], as Jam. 1. 17. so it is used Joh. 4. 10. If thou knewest the Gift of God, [Greek or Hebrew], The Gift of God, that is, the thing given by him, or to be given by him. It is, as many judge, the Person of Christ himself in that place, which is intended. But the context makes it ⟨p. 44⟩plain, that it is the Holy Ghost; For he is the Living water which the Lord Jesus promiseth in that place to bestow. And so far as I can observe [Greek or Hebrew], the Gift, with respect unto God as denoting the thing given, is no where used but only to signify the Holy Ghost. And if it be so, the sense of this place is determined, Acts 2. 38. Ye shall receive [Greek or Hebrew], the Gift of the Holy Ghost; not that which he gives, but that which he is, Chap. 8. 20. Thou hast thought [Greek or Hebrew], that the Gift of God may be purchased with money, that is, the Power of the Holy Ghost in miraculous Operations. So expressly, chap. 10. 45. chap. 11. 17. Elsewhere, [Greek or Hebrew], so far as I can observe, when respecting God, doth not signify the thing given, but the grant it self. The Holy Spirit is signally the Gift of God under the New Testament.