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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
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.
1. He expresseth him by his Name [Greek or Hebrew]; Jesus. And by the Interposition of 1this name here the Apostle may design two things.
1. He expresseth him by his Name 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Jesus. And by the Interposition of 1this name here the Apostle may design two things.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
(1) To mind us of the signification of it, whence the reason of his Assumption of it was taken. Jesus signifies a Saviour; And he was called Jesus, because he was to save his People from their sins, Matth. 1. 21. He therefore concerning whom all these things are affirmed, is to be considered as our Saviour; who had the name of a Saviour given him by God himself, with respect unto the work which he was to do, 1 Thes. 1. 10. and he is Jesus still, able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him.
(2) To reflect on the common use of that name in the world. This was the Name under which he was reproached, reviled, crucified and slain as a Malefactor, They crucified Jesus. Wherefore the Apostle treating here of the glorious Exaltation of the Son of God, that none might pretend or fancy to themselves that it was any other thing or person that he intended, he expresseth him by that Name, whereby he was known in the world, under which he was reproached and suffered. And this all the Apostles were careful to inculcate in the first preaching of the Gospel; Jesus of Nazareth,