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An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Owen surveys the historical, canonical, theological, and authorship issues in the book of Hebrews. He also writes at length about the depiction of the Messiah in Hebrews, with special care to link Jesus to Old Testament promises and prophecies. The final part of Volume One is devoted to the epistle’s treatment of the institution of Judaism with regard to the law, the priesthood, the sacrificial...

directly, in the letter, against that cessation of Mosaical rites which the Jews opposed. Now, who was fit, who was able, to determine upon these different and various institutions of God, but God himself? To declare positively that all obligation from his former commands was now ceased, that his institutions were no more to be observed, that the time allotted unto the church’s obedience unto him in their observance was expired,—this was no otherwise to be effected but by an immediate revelation
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