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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.
In this place alone is this Title assigned unto the Lord Christ, though the things intended in it are elsewhere expressed. And so it must be said concerning the name of a surety, which our Apostle makes use of in the next Chapter, ver. 22. Great mysterious Truths may often be comprised in one word, used and employed by the Holy Ghost for our Instruction; and therefore every word of the Scripture is diligently to be searched into.
It is indifferent whether we render the words, the Forerunner for us, that is, our Forerunner is entered; or the Forerunner is entered for us. In the first ⟨p. 178⟩way the Qualification of his Person, a Forerunner for us; in the latter the design of his Action, the Forerunner acting for us, is intended. Both come to the same purpose; and our Translators so place the words as if they inclined unto the latter sense. Two things we are to enquire into.
It is indifferent whether we render the words, the Forerunner for us, that is, our Forerunner is entred; or the Forerunner is entred for us. In the first ⟨p. 178⟩way the Qualification of his Person, a Forerunner for us; in the latter the design of his Action, the Forerunner acting for us, is intended. Both come to the same purpose; and our Translators so place the words as if they enclined unto the latter sense. Two things we are to enquire into.
(1) What is a Forerunner. (2) What the Holy Ghost would instruct us in by this Ascription unto Christ, or he is a Forerunner entering within the Veil for us.