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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 13, 14, 15, 16: Verse 13, 14, 15, 16.
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.
Wherever God makes use of created Angels in messages unto the Children of men, he sends them unto the Earth; but this speaking from Heaven is a description of God himself, Heb. 12. 25. Therefore (3) By this Angel no other Angel is to be understood, but the great Angel of the Covenant the second person of the Trinity, who thus appeared unto the Fathers under the Old Testament. See this proved at large in our Tenth Exercitation in the first Volume of our Exposition on this Epistle. He it was that spake and sware by himself. For when a mere Angel sweareth, he swears always by one greater than himself according to the rule of our Apostle in this place, Dan. 12. 17. Rev. 10. 5, 6.
Whereever God makes use of created Angels in messages unto the Children of men, he sends them unto the Earth; but this speaking from Heaven is a description of God himself, Heb. 12. 25. Therefore (3) By this Angel no other Angel is to be understood, but the great Angel of the Covenant the second person of the Trinity, who thus appeared unto the Fathers under the Old Testament. See this proved at large in our Tenth Exercitation in the first Volume of our Exposition on this Epistle. He it was that spake and sware by himself. For when a meer Angel sweareth, he swears always by one greater than himself according to the rule of our Apostle in this place, Dan. 12. 17. Rev. 10. 5, 6.
Secondly, It may be enquired when God did thus swear: [Greek or Hebrew]; 1promising he sware. He did not first promise, and afterwards confirm it with his Oath. He gave his Promise and Oath together; or gave his Promise in the way of an Oath. Yet are they distinctly considered, nor is it the mere vehemency of the Promise that is intended. For in the next Verse the Apostle calls the Promise and the Oath two things, that is, distinct from one another; [Greek or Hebrew], two Acts of God. But although he hath respect principally unto that especial Promise which was given with an Oath, yet by the same Oath were all the Promises of this kind given before unto Abraham equally confirmed; whence it may be applied unto all the Promises of God as it is in the following verses. That which is directly intended is that whereof the story is expressed,