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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.
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.
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 Melchisedec, there is adjoyned 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.
The Introduction of the whole Discourse, and therein its Connection unto what went before, is contained in the casual Particle [Greek or Hebrew], For; and this may respect the ⟨p. 92⟩Reason why the Apostle affirmed, and insisted so much on it, that the Lord Christ was a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek: For, both the Truth (saith he) of my Assertion, and the Necessity of insisting thereon, will be sufficiently manifest, if you will but consider who this Melchizedek was, how he is Represented in the Scripture, and what is affirmed of him. Or Respect may be had in this word unto the whole preceding Discourse, from Chap. 5. ver. 11. There he lays the Foundation of it, affirming, that he had many things to say of this Melchizedek; and those such, as they would not easily understand, unless they diligently applied their minds unto the knowledge of Divine Mysteries; hereof he now designs to give them an Account. For this Melchizedek, &c. But the Connection is most Natural unto the words immediately preceding; and a Reason is given of what was affirmed in them, Namely, That Jesus was made an High Priest for ever, after the Order of Melchizedek, Chap. 6. 20. for it was thus with this Melchizedek.