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Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 · 2,402,827 words · 2087 reading sections

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der. t What afflitions I met with at Aztioch in Piſudia, Affs 11, I4, 45, 5c. u At ſcontum, Whither he went from Pifcdia ; of the AfMidtions he met with there allo. Read As 14. w The Ap. ſtle went from /conium to Lyſtra, Affs 14. 6. x There alſo he was perſecuted, As 14. 19, Now it ſeemeth that in all theſe Motions …

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his Office in all its parts, becauſe of the wickedneſs of Men in future times, 1——5, He foretel!s bis own approaching Death; bis Hop: and Comfort herein, 6——$, He willeth him to come ſpeedily tc him, and bring Mark with bimz and certain other things which be | wrote fer, g 13. He warns bim of Alexander a Copper-ſmi…

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2 Emvuiueu, The Word properly fignifieth to be offered as a Ice 2 Pete Drink-Offering, which was offered by being poured out. Some ſay ** 14» that aviyd>par is only uſed to fignifie ſuch Offerings whereby ſome Covenant was confirmed z ſo as it not only ſignifieth that Paul was ſenſible that he ſhould die a violent …

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15 Of whom be thou ware alſo; for he hath great- ly withſtood |] our words. 16 At my firſt anſwer a no man ſtood with me b, but all men forſook mec: 7 pray God that it may not be laid to their chargg d. - a At my firſt appearing before Nero, and the Court of Rome, b none of the Chriſtians ftood by me, or owned me…

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Paul's Salutation ; the Dignity of bis Apoſtleſhip, 1==== 4, For what end be left Titus in Crete ;, and what fnaif ations and Gifts are required in & good Paſtor, 5 He exhorts bim 10 ftop 1he Mouths of Seducers g who according to one of their own Poets, were ſuch as needed ſharp reproofs,” 1 1=——13, That they may k…

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0 We have had both of theſe Words before ; the firft ſignifieth ftubborn, unruly Men ; the ſecond, idle, fooliſb, vain talkers ; The Apoſtle ſaith, That in that Age there were many of theſe, p and ſuch who were deceivers of other Men's Souls,or had their own Souls deceived; q Eſpecially (he faith) the Fews, who mix…

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20. 1 Cor. filed k, 6.12.& 2 By the Pure here (as appeareth by the terms oppoſed to it) are 10. 23, 25+ meant all thoſe whoſe Hearts are purified by Fairh, working by love 1114.3, jn an holy Life. To theſe he faith al things, that is, all the Crea- h. tures of God, all Meats and Drinks are pure. hat God hath clean-…

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3 He is an ill Teacher of others who teacheth them no own Example, as well as by his Dottrine ; for that Ph ordinarily little valued in his Preſcriptions to his Pa they know to be in the ſame danger, andfick of the ſame Diſcai: and yet refuſeth himſelf to uſe -what he preſcribeth others, The Parients will furely ſ…

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iS v5 both from the guilt and power of fin, who were Slaves and Cap- - | tives to our Lufts, 2 And that he might purifie to himſelf, Au9y n | a&1£010y,- we Tranſlate it a peculiar People 3 ſome Tranſlate it an - egregious, famous, principal People ; others ſay it fignifieth /omerbing M got by our own labour and ind…

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t * 1Tin. caſion to reprove any for their Errors, do not do it imperiouſly, but | have caft their Souls upon God and Jeſus Chrift,for the fulfilling of = J withgneekneſs z nor yet flightly and curſorily, but ſhewing all gra- | them, may (conſidering good works are the condition annexed to Peta vity and authority. 4 A…

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Chap. III. it Chap. I. PHIL 15 All that are with me ſalute thee. Greet them that love us In the faith a. Grace be with you al). Amen. E MON. _ Chap1 4 That love vs, as we are Chriftians in,and for tie Gor free love of God be thy Portion, and the Portion of al wy Lang ſtians in Crete, + Fph.4.1. 21i1,1,8, *P…

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cimes calleth a Company of Chriſtians ordinarily converſing toge- | els of the Saints, dyamimww]ar, are brought ro a reſt ; as Travellers ther by that Name. Thoſe who think the Body of the Church were wont conſtantly to meet in Philemon's Houſe, ſeem not to con- fider how the dangers of thoſe times made ſuch a thing…

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r x0tvavoy, One with whom thou haſt Communion + a Partner in the ſame Grace of the Goſpel, and in the ſame trials and affliftions of the Goſpel. / Do not only forgive him, but kindly entertain him, who is my Friend, as thou wouldft do my ſelf. 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought t, put that on my accou…

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frons'y confirming the Truth the Apoſtle Peter had written to them, chap. 6. 2. and 10 26, 27. hey it 3x ſq expreſſrue "of bis Condition in Bonds, chap. 10 34 and 13.19. Colofl. 4 18. of his known Companion Timothy, chap. 13.23 Cololl. x. 1. of his Love to, and concern for thoſe to whom he writes, Rom. 9. 1, 2,93. an…

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2 The Apoſtle deſigning the Convittion of theſe Hebrews by this Diſcourſe, enters on it ſolemnly ; that ifa GOD can awe them, the conſideration of him ſhould gain credit to his Doctrine. The God he ſpeaks of, is to be apprehended here Perſonally as well as Eſ- ſ-ntially, God the Father, the One Admirable Soveraign,…

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ceiving the Right of it in the whole Tnheritance, Pſa]. $5.27. Rom. $. 2y. Col. 1. 15,18, The Lot and Portion 1s fallen to him by God's Law, the Huir being Lord of all, Gal. 4. 1. Being Heir of his Brethren, P/. 2.8. and the Builder and Purchaſer of his Inhe- ritance, Revel. 5.9, to 14. comp. 1 Per. 3. 4, 13, 19. P…

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t The ſame Goſpel-Miniſter God's Son was, as to his Perſon, &mwacun, brighmeſs ſhining out; which word ſets forth the natu- ral cternal Generation of God the Son, diſcovering both the Riſe and Eux of hisBeing,and the beauteous and gloriousExcellency of it. It is the lame in the fight of it with the Fathers, the bri…

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b 'lhis God-Man, the great Gofpel-Miniſter, is more excelent than Angels, and fo muſt ſurpaſs all the Prophets. He 52c2me thus by being ſurely conſtituted and declared, as ordained by God's De- cree from Eternity, in eminence above them by actual inveſtiture on his Aſcenſion, Epheſ. 1. 20, 21. A more excellent Perſ…

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4 ] his is a farther Proof of the great Goſpel-Miniſter being more excellent than Angels, by God's Command to them, to worſhip him. Tz ſome refer to God the Father's Speech, as again be /atth ; others think ittoo groſs a Tranſpoſition, and unuſual in the Scrip- ture, anc ſo read it as it ftandsin the Greet iext, 2e…

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b The Adminiftration of this King in bis Kingdom is ſyicatyto +. his Throne and Scepter, it isall Goodneſs. For he fo loved Righre. ouſneſs and hated Iniquity (being Righteous and Holy in himſelf in Life and Death, expiating Sin, and ſanifying Believers.) $g that he a&ts as to both of theſe properly from himſelf, p…

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titled, Fehevah, chap. 13. 8. His Aſſumption of the range to his Perton, Made no alteration in him, being ſtill the lame moſt excellent Perſon as ever, Mal. 3. 1, 6, 1 Cor, 12.5. q As the Being of God the Son is not meaſured nor determined by Tears or Tine, io, in reſpett of his Humanity, the Years which were the …

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fore received, believed; heeding them ſoas to refain and praGtiie them ; ſo to believe, profefs, be, keep and do what he ſpeaks fron the Father to them, having Souls knit and cleaving to them, Fames I. 22, 25, c All that Mind and Will of God which his Son revea'- heard him m - # This Conſequent anſwereth the Antec…

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in this Verſe, Demonſtration of his excel/ing Angels, having a World to come ſubje#- ed to him, which th:y have not ; for ſo none of theſe incorporeal, in- tellettual, Spiritual Subſtances ſo often diminiſhed before, have, be- cauſe thoſe Hebrews were more adicted to eſteem of them, and the Law miniſtred by them, …

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eges fittel for them, an1 ca!ſel by the Spirit the Kingdom of Hea- vn 3 it ſurpaſſing the Sinai Church-State as much as Heaven 0 oh Earth ; and he is now proceeding to caft down Papijm, or mon Chriſtian-Pag aniſm, and Mahometiſm, Revel. 19. 19, 20, 21, and to ſubdue the generality of Men, both Jews and Gentiles, to…

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c *Hadmowous, So diminiſhed, as it ſuppoſed the Subje@ to bÞ in 3 higher Condition before : this no man ever was, but the Maj: C#v:/7 Feſus, ſee Philip. 2. 7, 8. d Begyy 71 may refer to his Conditions and to the duration of it, He was lower 4 little, in his Nature be- ing a Man and Servant, in his Condition Sufferi…

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Grecian Cuftoms, who put Men to death by giving them a Cup of Poiſon, as the Athenians executed Socrates, 0 To render Sin re- miſſible to all Perſons, and them ſalyable, God puniſhing man's Sin in him, and laying on him the Iniquities of us all, 12. 53. 4, 5, 6. t Fobn 2. 2, and ſo God became propitious and plauſib…

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y This brings in the Proof,that the great Goſpe}-Minifter Chrift; God Man, did call his ſan@ified ones, Brethren ; and was by the ſame Nature ſo related to them. The Proof is in P/alm 22. 22, where the Apoftle afſerrs,Chrift ſpoke what was ſaid by the Prophet there, and that this Pſalm concerneth him, is evident by…

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and render powerleſs without any Recovery,not by taking away the immortal Life and Being, but the zeg76,, the Strength and Power to kill, For the .*Zvoza, the Authority, Right, and Command, the Keys of Deathare in Chriſt's Hand only, and he uſeth the Strength of this EXecutioner in it, as to his Enemies ; when Sinn…

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And May, that he might feelingly underſtand the State of that Na- ture, and be a compleat Saviour of it, Zech,13. 79. By this Per- ſon, God had no unfitneſs nor diſparagement in treating with Sin- ners, which in a meer Creature he would. For what Creature coul:! have mediated with him 2 Who durſt undertake it, but …

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in their Sufferings-and Temptations. Theſe Sufferings of his had a purchaſing Power and Ability in them for us, He thereby buying help and ſuccour for us to al] ours that ſhould be correſpondent unto his ; fo as by is Bloody Death under Temptation he bought off ours, et- ther not to overtake us, .or it under them, …

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Parallel with Mo/ex whom he did exceed. form all he was intruſted with, according to the intention and end of his Commiſſion. He did mott taithfully reveal God, John 1. 18 and his whole faving Will to whom God ſent him, 7ohn 3. 31, tc 34. and 5. 34. and 8.28,38. As his great Prophet, 4A&s 3.22. ] He as faithſully …

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and Family, his Church, he is but a Servant. # His faithfulneſs was evident in his bearing true Witneſs to the Church, of all God made known tohim, that they might not be uncertain of the Truth ; even all that Truth, which was more fully and clearly to be ſpoken by the Prophets after him, and by Chriſt and his Apoſ…

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vet after the fight of ſo' many Miracles; when they cried 'out, Is the Lord among us ? Fſal.c5.8, It may alſo refer to the whole | derneſs. | | 9 When your Fathers tempted me x, proved me » and ſaw my works forty years's. | ” x In the time and place forementioned, the Fathers from wh you derive your Being and Cor…

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| Chap. IIL. cially of Spiritual and Eternal Lite, John 5:. 19, 20, 21, 25, 8s: which Living God 15 our Lord .Jeſus Chriſt, terſe 7. whoſe Voice they were to hear, who was tempted, by their Unbelief in the Wil- derneſs, 1, Cor. 10. 9. who gave the Lawto themat Sinai, Chap. 12. 26., So that to Apoſtatize from lym a…

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ſets a better Example of their Fathers, for them to follow : Let Ca- leb and Foſhua, Believers, and Obedicnt'to God, be your Patterns to imitate ; he agzravates the Diſobedience of the. one, and the Obedi- ence of the other. They all had equally a clear exemption and Dec - liverance from the place of Bondage, and t…

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e Thercaton inforcing the former counſe] is, their having mutuai- :. 1y the ſame means, the one as the other, and if they tear not, May be ovilty ofthe ſame fin; for the Hebrews and the whole Church were Ewan, eized by the outward publiſhing to them, and their pro- fied Reception ofthe glad tidings of Salvition by …

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Seventh Days Reſt; procceds to prove likewiſe, that it could not he the Reſt of j/racl in the Land of Canaan, fince that was entercd into 490 years before he wrote by the Spirit of this better Reſt, ſince thoſe unbelieving T/rae] that entred into Canaan, never centred int; this Reſt. Foraſmuch then as a Reſt to com…

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bent on it, and our Wills fixed and reſolved about it, and the Opera- tions of all the executive Powers of our Pcrions put forth to the ut- moſt Degree, fo as Q.| the Duties necetlary thercunto, as attendance on a/i Ordinances, and the conſtant Exerciſe of Faith and Ovedieiice, muſt he fitting us for, and bringing …

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1Or. þ TEIN I 3 * Neither is there any creature that is not ma- Fodeorit 13.14.01 DIfeſt in- his ſight o - bur all chings are naked and ©, 2.1nq Opened p to the eyes of him with whom we have to 139.11,12, JO 9. 0 Kei is not only copulative, but rationz!, ſhewing the ground of the former Efficacy of the Goſpe!-Word…

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w This Duty of Perſeverance in the Chriſtian Religion, is infor- ced by the Conſideration of the Sympathy of this High-Prieft. with the States of all who will enter into God's Reſt by him, {1 is worthy. that we ſhould hold it faſt, being without Tmpotcney, it 1s impoſſible he ſhould be pityleſs to penitent Sinners,…

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4 The melting quality of the Typical K1;h-Prieſt is eminently tg be fulfilled in the Goſpel one ; each is to have an Aptneſs, Diſpoliti- on, and a {utficiency of it by the Inſtitution of God, for his Miniſtra- tions, for manner as well as for matter, Chap. 2. 18. and 4. 15 Metecorebejr ſtriftly is to bear, ſuffer, …

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ut of the Numbers of Men for whom he was to Miniſter, and herefore to be a Man. He was not to bean Angel, nor to miniſter for them; and being ſeparated from Men, is to be put into another and higher Rank and Order, Exod. 28. 1. than he was in before : No Perſon was to uſurp it, but to be deſigned to it according to…

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þ The Spirit proves his Call and Inveſtiture into this Office, 1ts Confirmation to him for ever by another Teftimony of the Father about it, penn'd by David, Pſatm 110. 4. and ratified to be fo by the Lord himſelf, 1Matth. 22. 41, to 45. that he as Man was David's Son, as'God-Man, David's Lord, and ths grand Oficer…

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Groans that his Soui poured out then witei He prayed more earneſtly. Lake 22. 44. that which made him firear through his bleſh con- gealed Clots of Blood, fqueezed by his Azony out of his Body, which made-him weep and cre loudly ; his Voice a5 well as his Sou! was ſtretched out in Prayer ; the like was not exerciie…

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h The Spirit proves theſe Hebrews ſuch Infants by deſcribing the ſtate of them, and of their contrary, and tacitely applying it to them under a Metaphor or Allegory ſtarted by him before. For, ſaith he, every one of you, who take in nothing but the Elements and weakeſt kind of Dofrines, and can bear no other, have …

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a The Spirit having reproved theſe Hebrews for their Fault, dotii now counſel and dire& them to amend it. Seeing ye have loft {- much time already, and made fo little progreſs in learning Chriſt : Let us nt therefore ſtay any longer in the Principles of it, but pro ceed to ſome higher degree ; purſuant to which he …

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of which it is a Sizn and Seal, and of their entring into it who partake of it, which as to its Dutics and Priviledges 1t tealed and confirmed ; and the Dottrine in which Bapti/rrs are taugitt, as that of Chriſt by Water, and by the Spirit, Matth. 3. 6. and John 3. 5. and containing in it the D:Xrine of the Seals o…

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m The foregoing Counſel the Spirit enforceth on theſe Hebrews, from the dinyzer of Apoſtacy, to which the negle& of it doth diſpoſe them,and the terrifying conſequence of it from wer. 4, to 9. We muſt g£0 on to Pertettion, unleſs we will draw back to Perdition; ſo that he beſpeaks them, You have been tluggiſh and d…

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r A falling away, or apoſtatizing in proportion like Adam, ſuci a rzexTTous as Nis was, Rom. $.15, 15, 17. whereby they are to- tally Unchriſtian'd, as he was turned into a2 Sinner; perfidicully re- volting trom all thoſe ſupernatural workin» of the Holy Ghoſt, whereby their natural Spirit- was elevated, but not ch…

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\ a Reprobate Mind, approving Evil, rejeding Good, and are fo rcjeted of God, who with-draws his, Spiritual Dews and Or- dinznces, and the corcurrence of his Spirit with them, as unworthy of them. and uſeleſs as to any food Fruit to be produced there, 6 Such are look'd vpon as the Mountains of Gilboa, accurſed,2 Sa…

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z Having thus commended them, to fhew he did not flatter them in it, he diſcovercth what was wanting in them, and introduccth it with the Particle, But, we defire you; 677290 (45 1451, properly fi-nineth the inward Afffeitimm and flrong defire of Heart that the Apoſtle had of their further Profit, The Spirit Juſted …

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r Here 1s laid down the form and matter of God's Oath, the form in Gen. 22, 16.-is implied in the Particle 1 in this Text well ren- cred ſurely, chap. 3. 11, The other defettive Expretfions are forms of Swearing, as if, except, unleſs ; but here it is poſitive, ſurely, or , verily, which Chriſt frequently uſeth ; i…

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b Another end of the Mediator's Oath is here added, God's Oath, and Promiſe, ſpoken to before, which are firm and itedfaſt to Eter- mty ; Heaven and Earth may paſs away, but they cannot. c 1. e. To ceaſe to be himſelf, for effential Truth to become a Lie, is im- poſſible, its utterly inconſiſtent with His Nature. H…

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the Order of Melchiſedec, of whom they had read, and whom they had in great eſteem, and after whoſe Order they were atiured by the Prophet David, another Prieſt was to riſe up in the Church, rendring Aaron's Prieſthood uſeleſs, and continuing the only means of reconcilins Sinners, and bringing them to eternaÞLife, …

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7 In this Verſe is a Myſtical Deſcription of the Eternity of Chriſt's Perſon an1 Prieſthood, ſet out by the Spirit 1n the Silcnce and Omnil- 11on of things that concerned Melchiſedec and his Glory ; ſothat what here 15 repreſented to be typically and in ſhadow, that was Chriſt real- ly and ſubjtantrially; for he gi…

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6 Bur he whole || deſcent is nor counted trom them 7, Teccived tithes of Abraham, and blefied *him rhar had the promiſes . 4 The Proof 1s here applied, ſhewing Melchiſedec to be greater, not than the Levitical Prieſts only, but than Abraham himſcif. He drew not his Genealogy from any Prieſts before him, but 1s gre…

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a The Spirit uo ſets this Prieithood above the Levitical by In- ſtance, which Inſtance being not fo proper or dirctt, ht: Form Of 1ntroducing 1t 1s confiderable, as ws I> Ov» car, as t0 jay the it 078, which 1s a Greek Elegancy of Speech, when that is uttercd which 1s remarkadle, and yet hard to be undcrftood ; and…

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Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1859

þ That this Prieflþozd was fo altered, he proves by Chriſt's being f another Tribe than Levis This 15 a Periphrajts deſcribing the Pric't after Melchiſed»c's Order. Of whom was thu {id in PſU. 110. 4. but of Clift, God-37an, the Royal High Prieft of, God, Met. 21. 42. He, as to his Humane Nature, deſcended of the T…

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SECTION 1860

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1860

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Public domain 1700 edition. Historical OCR from the original scan; OCR may contain typographical recognition errors.

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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.