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EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.
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BY JOHN OWEN, D.D.
EDITED BY W. H. GOOLD, D.D.
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M.DCCC.LIYV.
AN EXPOSITION
OF THE
4 EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,
CHAPTER III.
Verses 7-11.
HAVING demonstrated the pre-eminence of the Lord Christ above Moses in their respective ministries about the house of God, the _ apostle, according unto his design and method, proceeds unto the _ application of the truth he had evinced, in an exhortation unto stability and constancy in faith and obedience. And this he doth in a way that adds a double force to his inference and exhortation; —first, in that he presseth them with the words, testimonies, and examples recorded in the Old Testament, unto which they owned __an especial reverence and subjection; and then the nature of the examples which he insists upon is such as supplies him with a new __ argument unto his purpose. Now this is taken from the dealing of God with them who were disobedient under the ministry and rule __ of Moses; which he further explains, verses 15-19. For if God ‘ dealt in severity with them who were unbelieving and disobedient __ with respect unto him and his work who was but a servant in the . house, they might easily understand what his dispensation towards them would be who should be so with respect unto the Son and his _ work, who is Lord over the whole house, and “ whose house are Ee we.”
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4 AN EXPOSITION OF THE [CHAP. IIT.
There are some little varieties in some words and letters observed in some old manuscripts, but of no importance or use, and for the most part mere mistakes ; as ivdoxiuacay for tdoxiwacay, ravry for éxsivy, cirw for cixov; as many such differences occur, where some have tampered to make the apostle’s words and the translation of the LXX. in all things to agree.
Kaas, “ sicut;” the Syriac and Arabic translations omit this word. “ Where- fore the Holy Ghost saith.” “OQ 2y 76 raparixpacug. So the LXX. in the psalm, * sicut in exacerbatione,” “in irritatione,’—“ in the provocation.” Syr., “ut ad iram eum provocetis tanquam exacerbatores,” both in the psalm and here also, departing both from the Hebrew text and the apostolical version,—*that you stir him not up to anger as provokers.” Kara rqy qucpuy rod reipeouov. So the LXX. in the psalm. Vulg., “secundum diem tentationis,’—“ according to the day of temptation;” that is, as those others, the fathers of the people, did in the day of temptation: so also in this place following the LXX. in the psalm, though a the original but that version also might more properly be rendered,
sicut in die tentationis,” “as in the day of temptation.” Od éreipacav. The translator of the Syriac version in the psalm, “qua tentarunt,” that is, * qua die;” referring it unto the time of the temptation, “the day wherein.” Here “ quum,” “when,” to the same purpose. Neither was there any need of the variety of expression, the word used by that translator in both places being the same, referring unto time, not place,—the day of temptation, not the wilderness wherein it was. Vulg., “ ubi,” properly “ where;” as the Arabie, “in quo,” “in which,”—“ desert,” the next antecedent. Ethiop., “Ho quod tentarunt eum patres vestri, tentarunt me,’— Whereas your fathers tempted him, they tempted me.” For it was Christ who was tempted in the wilderness, 1 Cor. x. 9.
“ Saw my works recoupenovta ery,’—“ forty years.” Here the apostle com- pletes the sense; for although sundry editions of the New Testament, as one by Stephen, and one by Plantin, out of one especial copy, place the period at epya vov, “my works,” yet the insertion of ds¢ after recowpexovre rn by the apostle, proves the sense by him there to be concluded. So is it likewise by the Syriac in the psalm, and by all translations in this place. However, the Ethiopic, omitting 84, seems to intend another sense. The LX X. and Vulgar Latin in the psalm follow the original; though some copies of the LX X. have been tampered withal, to bring them to conformity with the apostle here, as usually it hath fallen out. And there is no doubt but that the order of the words in the Syriac version on the psalm came from this place.
TIpooaxOio, “ offensus fui,” “incensus fui;” Arab., “exsecratus sum,’— I cursed this generation.” :
*Acl xaavavres. The original in the psalm, "1 52,1 “this people,” which in the psalm is followed by the Syriac; and, contrary to the apostle, the same ex- pression is retained in that version on this place. The LXX. in the psalm have taken in these words of the apostle, and left out those of the original; wherein they are (as almost constantly in the Psalms) followed by the Vulgar Latin.