A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

§. 58. Of the meaning of the tenth verse.

Vers. 10. IN the tenth verse there is a confirmation and an explanation of Levi's paying tithes in Abraham. The caufall conjunction a 1.1 FOR, shew∣eth that this verse is inferred as a confirmation of that which went before.

The argument is taken from that union that is betwixt a Father and his posterity. They are all contained in him, and as one with him: so as what he doth, they do.

The explanation is in this phrase, he was in his Fathers loynes. By Father is me∣tonymically meant his great Grand-Father Abraham. In a third generation Levi descended from Abraham: in which respect he was in him. For that which com∣meth out of one must needs be first in him.

Of this word, loines, and of comming out of ones loines, see v. 5. §. 41.

This adverb of time, translated, b 1.2 yet, signifieth for the most part a continuance of time, as Heb. 11. 4. Abel yet speaketh, that is, he still continueth to speak.

It hath reference also to all distinctions of time, as to time present, thus, while he yet talked, Matth. 12. 46. and to the time to come, Ioh. 14. 30. and to the time past, Act. 21. 28.

Here without question, this particle hath reference to the time past, and for per∣spicuity sake may be translated, then. He was then in the loines of his Father, when Melchisedec met him.

Of Melchisedecs meeting Abraham, see v. 1. §. 8.

Notes

• a 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• b 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 See v. 11. Sect. 64.