Biblical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews
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ISBN13: 9780217444521
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: seed of David was to do in a higher and more excellent degree that which in a less degree the builders of the tabernacle had done, this might properly be considered as a uniting of priestly- ecclesiastical with civil functions, and might be represented in the language of lyrical poetry as a government after the order of Melchesedec. But if the seed of David is to have an house built for him by the Lord himself, and is to reign for ever and ever, he is thereby exalted to God's own throne; God has built for him his house and his throne, he has built God's house; the dominion of both is thus endless and unlimited, and becomes accordingly one and the same. But while it is impossible that David can be the object of the psalm, he can be, and is, its author. For, from what other individual of the time of David are we at liberty to expect such an unfolding of the Messianic hope, than from that king who gave utterance to the prayer with which we are already familiar in 2 Sam. vii. 18?29 and chap. xxiii. 1 ss.? This passage from the Psalms, then, is cited by our author. No angel, but a man, is chosen to an immediate unity of dominion with God, to absolute rule over all enemies, over the whole world. The angels, on the contrary, as the author says in ver. 14, by way of recapitulation, and looking back to ver. 7, are ministering spirits eirovpyiKa Trvevfjiara; they exist only on account of those who are appointed to be heirs df salvation. It is not the angels that are called into a relation of oneness with God, but man. In this antithesis, the whole train of thought finds its conclusion. A PRACTICAL INTERMEDIATE PART. Chap. ii. 1?4. In ch. ii. 1?4 the author immediately adds a practical application of the foregoing. All the more carefully must we hold fast the New Testa...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217444521 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217444520 |
| Weight | 1.03 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 316 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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