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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.
Fourthly, It is added in the Description, that they had tasted [Greek or Hebrew], The Good Word of God. And we must enquire, (1) What is meant by the Word of God. 1(2) How it is said to be Good; and (3) In what sense they taste of it.
Fourthly, It is added in the Description, that they had tasted 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The Good Word of God. And we must enquire, (1) What is meant by the Word of God. 1(2) How it is said to be Good; and (3) In what sense they taste of it.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
1. [Greek or Hebrew] is properly, verbum dictum, a word spoken; and although it be sometimes used in another sense by our Apostle, and by him alone, chap. 1. 3. chap. 11. 3. where it denotes the effectual active power of God; yet both the signification of the word, and its principal use elsewhere, denotes words spoken, and when applied unto God, his word as preached and declared. See Rom. 10. 17. Joh. 6. 68. The Word of God, that is, the Word of the Gospel as preached, is that which they thus tasted of. But it may be said, that they enjoyed the Word of God in their state of Judaism; They did so, as to the written word; for unto them were committed the Oracles of God, Rom. 3. 2. But it is the word of God as preached in the Dispensation of the Gospel that is eminently thus called, and concerning which such excellent things are spoken,