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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 7 › Exegesis of verses 1, 2, 3: Ver. 1, 2, 3.
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.
Ver. 1, 2, 3.
For this Melchizedek, King of Salem, Priest of the most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings, and Blessed him; to whom also Abraham divided out a tenth part of all: First, being by Interpretation King of Righteousness; and after that also King of Salem, which is King of Peace: Without Father, without Mother, without Pedigree; having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a Priest continually.
For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, Priest of the most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings, and Blessed him; to whom also Abraham divided out a tenth part of all: First, being by Interpretation King of Righteousness; and after that also King of Salem, which is King of Peace: Without Father, without Mother, without Pedigree; having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a Priest continually.
The words are an entire Proposition, consisting of a Subject, and a Predicate, or what is affirmed of it. Unto the Subject spoken of, which is Melchizedek, there is adjoined a large Description, by its Properties and Adjuncts in sundry particulars. That which is affirmed of him, as so described, which is the predicate of the Proposition, is contained in the last words, or the Close of the third Verse; but being made like unto the Son of God, abideth a Priest for ever.