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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.
3. Our Apostle makes a distinction between [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 11. 11. between stumbling and falling, and would not allow that the unbelieving Jews of those days, were come so far as [Greek or Hebrew], that is, to fall absolutely, [Greek or Hebrew]. I say then have they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid; that is, absolutely and irrecoverably. So therefore doth that word signify in this place. And [Greek or Hebrew] increaseth the signification, either as to perverseness in the manner of the fall, or as to violence in the fall its self.
3. Our Apostle makes a distinction between 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rom. 11. 11. between stumbling and falling, and would not allow that the unbelieving Jews of those days, were come so far as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is, to fall absolutely, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I say then have they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid; that is, absolutely and irrecoverably. So therefore doth that word signifie in this place. And 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 encreaseth the signification, either as to perverseness in the manner of the fall, or as to violence in the fall its self.
From what hath been discoursed it will appear, what falling away it is that the Apostle here intendeth. And,