C &A P. I tá 276 ernHxtion of the and grace whereof he amplifies by an intimation that he was not o partake .of the Angelical nature. That fuppofition therefore which is the foundationof this Expo. fition, namely that the Apofile had before defigned to prove that the Meffiab ought to partake of humane nature, and not ofAngelical, which is nothing to his purpofe, is a furmife fuited only to the prefent occafion. Wherefore Felbinger in his Demonffratio. nes Evangelica takes another couxfe, and affirms that thefe words contain the end of what was before affected, verfe 4, 15. namelyabout CbriJls participation offiejh and blood, which was not to help Angels, but thefeed ofAbraham, and to take them into grace and favour. But thefe things are both ofthem exprefly declared in thofe verfes, efpecially verfe 15. where it is diretly affirmed, that his defign in his Incarnation and Death was to defiroythe devil, and to free and fave thechildren : And to what end fhould there things be here again repeated, and that inwords andterms far moreob- fcure and ambiguous than thofe wherein it was before taught and declared ? For by Angels they underhand evil Angels ; and there could be no cäufe why the Apofäc Mould fay in this Verfe, that he didnot of g or relieve them, when he had declared in the words immediately fore going, that he was born and died that he might de- Jlroythem. Neither is it comely to fay, that theend whyaria deffroyed the devil was, that he might not helpbim ; or the endwhy he raved the children was, that he might apt them. Betidesthe introductionof this affection, ;u lb d`áae, will not allow, that here any endis intimatedofwhat was before expreffed, therebeing no infinuationof anyfinal caufe in them. The Contexttherefore, not anfwering their oecafion, they betake thetnfelves odic words,Verbum iottxap,Fdvarat ( faith he ) fignificat proprie, menu aliquemapprebenderes five ut il'um aliquo ducal, fiveut fuffentes; bineadopitulationém fignificandarn cammodi tranrfertur ; quos enim adjutos volumes ne extant, ve! fubq enero aliquofuccambant, aut f ceciderint credos cupimos, iit mamtm injicerefolemus, quo fnfu EcelefiaJlic. q.. V. 12. Defa. pientia diEfum eft, ,ÿ iate aµßdveras .11r&vrar ïurii,, hoe off, opitulatur quarentibes fe, eadem e frgnificatio verbi siertaapßdrerae,quad qui aliquemfublevatunr ttelint lid sacad- verfó manum porrigere[slear. It is acknowledged that dvrsoo,. averai Both frequently fgnifie as here is alledged,' namely to help andagf, as it were by putting forth the hand for togive relief. But if that were intended by the Apoftle in this place, what reafon can be afligned why he Ihould wave theufe of a word proper unto his purpofe, and frequently foapplied by himfelf inother places, and make nfe ofanother, which fignifying nofucb thing, nor any where ufed by him in that fenfe, muff needs obfcure his meaning,and render it ambiguous? Whereas therefore ávrtaaµßdveru lignifies to helpand relieve, and is con- flantly ufed by our Apofile in that fenfe, it being not ufed or applied by him in this place toexprefs his intention, but ivtaaµßdverat, which fgnifies no fach thing,nor is ever ufed by him to that purpofe, the fencecontended for ofhelpand reliefis plainly excluded. The place ofEcckfiafficur, and that alone, is referred untoby all that em- brace this Expoftion. But what if the word be abufeed in that place by that Writer? muff that give a rule unto its interpretation in all other Writers where it is properly ufed ? But yet neither is the word ufed there forto helpand relieve, but to take and receive; Wifilom,fufeipit, receiveth, ortaketh unto it fell, fasmore, thofe that leek it; which is the fenfeof the word we plead for, and fo is it rendred by Tranflators. So the Lord Chrif}, fuomodo, took to himfelf the fled ofAbraham, by uniting it unto his perron ashewas the Son ofGod. In the very entrance alto ofhis difcourfe this Au- thor acknowledgeth that iwtoaußdrerar doth not direïtly or properly lignifieto help or to relieve, but fignifying to take holdof, is transferredunto that ufe and fenfe. I ask, where? by whom? in what Author? If he Pays in this place by the Apofile, that will not prove it ; and where any will plead for the metaphorical ufe ofa word, theymull either prove that the fenfe of the place where it is ufed inforces that acceptation of it, or at leaf} that in like cafes in otherplaces it is foufed, neither of whichare here pretended. But he proceeds. ,Leadhie elicit, iaraaµßdvf.9ar, v. t8. per ßonlñaay dfirt ; de eadenn enim re utrobique agitar, et,rationemeonfquentie argumenti, rod in hoc vertical° prepare!: ikie explicar. This is but imagined, thecontrary isevident unto-everyone, upon the Mt Context. Here the Apoftle difcourfeth the Reafon of the Humiliation ofChrif}, and his saltingHerb; there the begeftt ofhis Priefily Office unto them that do believe. 'E reraußrétr¡cat is therefore properly Imo, accipie, to take unto, or to take upon ; and
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