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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.
Of this latter Opinion Hierome is the Principal Author and Maintainer in his Epistle to Cuagrius. And there are three Reasons for it, whereon he much insists: (1.) That there was a City near Shechem that was called Salem and no otherwise. And this is plainly affirmed in the Scripture, Gen. 33. 18. And Jacob came to Shalem a City of Shechem which is in the Land of Canaan. For those who render the words, [Greek or Hebrew] —Et venit Jacob pacificus or incolumis ad Urbem Shechem, so making the word appellative, and not the Name of a place, are undoubtedly mistaken. For the same place is mentioned again in the New Testament by the same ⟨p. 96⟩Name, John 3. 23. John was Baptizing in Aenon near to Salim. For, that Salim and Salem are the same Hierome well thews, with the Reason of the variation. (2.) He affirms, that at that time were seen at Shechem the Ruins of the Palace of Melchizedek, which manifested it to have been a munificent Structure. (3.) It is pleaded that the circumstances of the story make it necessary to judge that it was this Salem. For Abraham was passing by the place where Melchizedek Reigned, who thereon went out to meet him. Now whereas he was returning from Hoba which was on the left hand, or North-side of Damascus, Gen. 14. 15. Jerusalem was not in the way of his Return, but Salem was.
Of this latter Opinion Hierome is the Principal Author and Maintainer in his Epistle to Cuagrius. And there are three Reasons for it, whereon he much insists: (1.) That there was a City near Sychem that was called Salem and no otherwise. And this is plainly affirmed in the Scripture, Gen. 33. 18. And Jacob came to Shalem a City of Shechem which is in the Land of Canaan. For those who render the words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 —Et venit Jacob pacificus or incolumis ad Urbem Shechem, so making the word appellative, and not the Name of a place, are undoubtedly mistaken. For the same place is mentioned again in the New Testament by the same ⟨p. 96⟩