VER. '6. Epi/ile to the HE BREWS. This is the fecond Argument ufed by the Apofile to confirm his Affertion of the Preference of the Sonabove Angels ; and is taken from the command of God given unto them toworfhip him ; For without Controverfie, He who is to be worjhipped, is greater than they whofeduty it is toworfhip him. In the wordswe mull confider, T. The Apofiles Preface : 2: His Proof. And in the latter mutt weigh, ( T. ) The Senfe of it. ( z. ) The Suitablenefl Of it to his prefentPurpofe. His Preface, or the manner of his producing of this fecond Tefiimony is this: ;2,0 S vamp BlGaydyH--TéyN; whichwords have been expofed unto variety of Inter- pretations ; for if aduv, be joyned with i,eayéyp, which immediately follows ; they are tobe rendered ; andwhen be brin eth in again into the world ; if with t,dyN, which follows it after theInterpofition of fundry other words, then is it to be rendered as byour Interpreters ; and again, when be brings ; he faith, . Moreover ! it is not clear in what fenfe Chritt is called gr NraTOXP., the Pirfi- born who is elfewhere termed µovoysvns su raTpis, the Only Begotten Sonof theFather. Wemull alto enquire what is the Introdutiion, or bringing in here intended ; How and When performed ; as alto what is the world whereintohe was brought. Thedif- ficulties about all which mutt be feverally confidered. r. dais, again, may be joyned with iraayelyp; And then the fenfe of the words mull run as above intimated ; namely, whenbe bringeth in again the fiat-barn into the world. And it is evident, that moth Expofrtors both Ancient and Modern embrace this fenfe. So doChrÿfoffom, Theadaret, Ambrofe, Oecumenius, Thomas, Lyra, Cajetan, Ribera,Camero; Gomartts,Effitu,ALapide; our Mede, with many others. But about what this bringingin again, orSecond bringing in ofthe ffrff-barn into the world thould be, they are greatly divided. The Ancients refer it to his Incarnation; affirming fomewhat harfhly, that he was brought before into the world, when all Things were made by him. 2. Others refer it to the RefurrePion, which was as it were afecond*bringfng ofChriff into the world, as David was brought intohis Kingdomagain, after he had been ex- pelled by the Confpiracyand Rebellion of Abfolom. ;. Others refer it unto his coming forth in the Effedual Preaching of theGsJfiel after his Afcenfron, wherebyhe was broughtforth in another manner, and with another kind of Power, than that whichhe appeared in, in the Days ofhis fiefb. 4. Some fuppofe the PerfmalReign ofChritt on the earth fora thoufandyears with his Saints, is intended in thefe words , when God will bring him again with Glory into the world ; of which judgement was Mede; andnow many follow him. 5.OtherS again, and they the moti, align the Accomplifhment of what is here afferted, to the General Judgement, and the Second Coming of Chritt in the Glory of the Father, with all the holy Angels attending him to judge the quick and ,the dead. 6. Some of theSocinians refer them unto theTriumphant Afcenfionof Chrifl into; Heaven, after his Refurrettion; he having, asthey fancy, once before been taken into it, there to be inftrueted in theMind andWill ofGod. Now all thefe Atfertionsconcerning the bringing in of Chriff into the world, have a. Truth in them abfoluteÿconfrdered ; but whether any of them be here intended by theApofile, wemutt enquire by an Examination of the commonFoundation that all their Authors proceedupon, with theReafons given for its Confirmation. Now this -is that which we obferved before ; namely, that in the Conttruttion of the words, wlïrrv, again, is to be joyned with iiaayíyp, bebringetb in ; andfo to be rendered, whenhe brings in again, ora fecond time, the firth-born ; which mull needs point to a fecond coming of Chrifi, of one kind or another : And to this purpofe they fay, T. That the 7rajeetion of the words in the other fenfe, is hard and difficult, andnot tobeadmitted but upon very cogent Keafons. It is to fuppofe that the Apoltle by Tav S ,rdnn, When Again ; intends aáuv 5 3rav; Again when; And betides, the in- terpofition of the many words between it, and alyst, be faith, will .not admit that they thould he conjoynedin Senfe andConttruttion. Butthis Reafon is not cogent : for, T. Molt of the antient Tranflations acknowledge this Tranfpofition of the words; !o theSyriack; reading thus, and again when he bringetb in; Co the Vulgar Latin; and the Arabick, omitting the term again, as not defigning any new thing, but meerll/ denoting $9
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