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 ...

§. 34. Of the meaning of these words, when I will make▪

THis conjunction of time, when, is in Greek the ordinary copulative a 1.1 And, That copulative is in all Greek Authors variously used: as it is also in the b 1.2 Hebrew: It is oft put for the time, as Mat. 9. 7. And he rose, that is, then he rose. And Mark. 15. 25. It was the third houre, And they crucified him: That is, when they •…•…ucified him. So here.

The verb translated, I will make, signifieth to end (Mat. 7. 28.) to finish (Rom. 9. 28.) to fulfill (Mar. 13. 4.) The Apostle doth here purposly use this verb (for he took* 1.3 it not from * 1.4 the lxx. they use d 1.5 an other word) to shew

• 1. That there should be no alteration of this covenant.
• 2. That all things typified in the former covenant were fulfilled in this.
• 3. That a covenant is then compleat, when it is solemnly ratified, and established.

The future tense (I will make) hath reference to that time when the Prophet fore∣told this; for at that time the old covenant was in force: and the time of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 covenant was then to come.

Notes

• a 1.1

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• b 1.2

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• * 1.3

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• * 1.4

  See Chap. •…•…. v. 6. Sect. 72.
• d 1.5

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