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 ...

§. 122▪ Of the Legall holy places types of Heavenly places.

THe forementioned holy places under the Law are thus further described, which are the figures of the true.

The Greek word here translated, figures, is not the same that was used, v. 9. §. •…•…9. That signified a 1.1 a Parable or resemblance. b 1.2 This properly signifieth a re∣pereussion or smiting againe; being compounded of a c 1.3 verbe, that signifieth to smile, and a d 1.4 preposition that signifieth against. It is twice used in the New Te∣stament; here and 1 Pet. 3. 21. There it signifieth one type answerable to another. Thus baptisme is said to be a like figure to the Arke: both of them figuring and setting sorth one and the same thing in substance. Here it is indefinitly taken for the e 1.5 simple noun, and is translated patterne, Chap. 8. v. 5.

That it is here thus taken is evident by the word that is joyned withi•…•… translated, true. This hath reference to the holy places before mentioned: they were types and* 1.6 figures of the true holy places, namely Heaven, as is afterward shewed.

This description of the holy places under the law intendeth the same things th•…•… these words (Patternes of things in the Heavens) did in the former verse.

The former word, figures, is a kind of extenuation; the latter, true, is an amplifica∣tion.

The holy places under the Law were but shaddows, and in that respect but mean things; but they were shaddowes of the true holy places which is Heaven it self, and in that respect, they were great and excellent things and of singular use.

Of these two points, See v. 23. §. 115, 117.

Notes

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