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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 7, 8: VERSE 7, 8.
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.
(2) This Rain falls on the Ground. And (3) It is said to fall often or frequently, iteratis vicibus. The Land of Canaan is commended that it was not like the Land of Egypt where the Seed was sowed and watered with the Foot; but that it was a Land of Hills and Valleys and did drink water of the Rain of Heaven, Deut. 11. 10, 11. And they had commonly two seasons of it, the former whereof they called [Greek or Hebrew] Joreh, and the latter [Greek or Hebrew] Malcosh, Deut. 11. 14. The former fell about October in the beginning of their year, when their Seed was cast into the Ground, and the Earth as it were taught thereby (as the Word signifies) to apply it self unto the Seed, and to become fruitful. The other fell about March when their Corn was grown up, filling the Straw and Ear for the Harvest, as the word probably signifies. Hence it is said that Jordan overfloweth all his Banks at the time of Harvest, Josh. 3. 15. 1 Chron. 12. 15. which was occasioned by the falling of Malcosh or this latter Rain. And that this was in the first Month or March, which was the entrance of their Harvest, it is evident from hence, in that immediately after they had passed over Jordan during the swelling of its waters, they kept the Passover at Gilgal on the fourteenth of that first Month, chap. 5. 10. Whilst they had these Rains in their proper seasons, the Land was fruitful; and it was by with-holding of them that God punished them with the Barrenness of the Earth, and Famine thereon ensuing. Besides these, in good seasons, they had many other occasional showers; as mention is made of the showers on the mown Grass. Hence it is here supposed that the Rain falls [Greek or Hebrew], often on this Earth.
(2) This Rain falls on the Ground. And (3) It is said to fall often or frequenly, iteratis vicibus. The Land of Canaan is commended that it was not like the Land of Aegypt where the Seed was sowed and watered with the Foot; but that it was a Land of Hills and Valleys and did drink water of the Rain of Heaven, Deut. 11. 10, 11. And they had commonly two seasons of it, the former whereof they called Joreh, and the latter Malcosh,