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The Works of John Owen — Volume 2

John Owen · 248,045 words · 245 reading sections

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Section 241

AN APPENDIX. 4i5 satisfied or fulfilled by the suffering of Christ, if, antecedently there- unto, its obligation, or power of obliging unto the penalty constituted in its sanction unto sin, was relaxed, dissolved, or dispensed withal. Nor was it agreeable to justice, nor would the nature of the things themselves admit…

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Section 242

" Let one be given uji to die in the stead of aU." John xiii. 37, Tr^v -^v-x/i^ i-i'Ov bvsp gov S^jcw. They are the Avords of St Peter unto Christ, " I will lay down my life for thee;" — " To free thee, I will expose my own head to danger, my life to death, — that tliou mayest live, and I die." It is plain that he int…

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SECTION 243

Section 243

And this is the common sense of " mori pro alio," and " pati pro alio," or "pro alio discrimen capitis subire;" a substitution is still denoted by that expression : which sufficeth us in this whole cause, for we know both into whose room he came, and what they were to suffer. Thus Entellus, killing and sacrificing an o…

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Section 244

AN APPENDIX. 451 the Argives. So Papinius [Statius] introduceth him treating [with] his gods: — " Armorum superi, tuque 6 qui fuuere tanto Indulges mihi, Phoelbe, mori, date gaudia Thebis, Quae pepigi, et toto quae sanguine prodigus emi." — [Theb. x. 757.] He reckoned that he had not only repelled all death and dan…

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Section 245

Again; ^^^ is used to the same purpose, ^'^*^ ^''^T^PD ^'^^], Isa. liii. AN APPENDIX. 453 12, "And he bare the sin of many." ^^^ is often used with re- spect unto sin ; sometimes with reference unto God's actings about it, and sometimes with reference unto men's concerns in it. In the first way, or when it denotes an…

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