Exercitation on Hebrews, Biblical exegesis · Chapter 1 · Exposition of verse 4
Verse 3.
foreign.
foreign, is wanting in M.S.T. But the sense requires the words, and all other antient Copies retain them: foreign, is wanting in some Copies: and one or two for foreign, have foreign, which hath nothing whereunto it should relate. Some also read, foreign; taken from Chap. 12. v. 2. where the word is used.
foreign, Qui est; Qui cum sit; Qui existens; Who is; Who when he is, or was;foreign. Who existing; as Phil. 2.6. foreign, Who being in the Form of God.
Who being, foreign, Splendor, Radius, Jubar, Effulgentia, Refulgentia, foreign.Relucentia. The Splendour, Ray, Beam, Effulgency, or shining forth of Glory. Syr. foreign, Germen, so Boderius, the branch; Tremelius and D' Dieu, Splendor, the Arabick concurring.
foreign, is Lux, Light; particularly the Morning Light, Acts 20. v. 11. foreign, he talked untill the break of day, or the beaming of the Morning Light; foreign, Gloss. Vet. Jubar Solis; the Sun-beam; and sometimes it denotes the Day it self. It is also sometimes used for the Light that is in burning Iron: foreign, is of the same signification: properly Splendor Lucis, the Brightness, Shining, Beauty, Glory, or Lustre of light. Hence is foreign, to shine forth, to shine into, to irradiate, 2 Cor. 4.4. foreign, that the Light of the Gospel should not irradiate, shine into them. foreign, is of the same importance; and from thence foreign; The Word is no where used in the New Testament save in this place only; nor doth it occurr in the Old of the LXX. Only we have it, Wisd. 7.26. Wisdom is said to be foreign, a Beam of eternal light; to which place the Margin of our Translation refer…. And it is so used by Nazianzen, foreign; a little beam of a great light. It answers exactly to the Hebrew foreign, or foreign; that is, the Morning Light, Prov. 4.18. The path of the righteous, foreign, ut Lux splendoris, Hierom; as the light of Brightness; that is, of the Morning, foreign, Acts 20.11. And it is also applyed to the light of Fire, or Fire in Iron, Isa. 4.5. foreign, the light of fire; and the fiery streaming of Lightning, Heb. 3.11.
foreign.The Brightness, Shining, Ray, Beam, foreign of Glory; Some look on this Expression as an Hebraism; foreign, the Beam of Glory; for foreign, a Glorious Beam; But this will not answer the design of the Apostle, as we shall see afterwards.
Our Translators have supplyed, His, the Brightness of his Glory, by repeating foreign, from the end of the sentence; perhaps as we shall find, not altogether necessarily▪ in which cases alone, such supplements unto the Text are allowed in Translations.
foreign.foreign, Character, Imago, Forma, Figura, Expressa Forma, Figura expressa, foreign, Syr. the Character, Image, Form, Figure, express Form, express Figure; so variously is the word rendered by Translators with little difference. It is no where used in the New Testament, but only in this place; In other Authors it hath many significations. Sometimes they use it Properly and Naturally; sometimes Metaphorical…y and Artificially; as when it denotes several forms of Speech, or Orations. Properly from foreign or foreign, to engrave with a Tool, or Style, is foreign, and foreign, which is firstly and properly, the note, or mark cut by a Tool or Instrument into Wood, or any other subject capable of such impression; or the stamp and sign that is left in the coyning of money. The Mark or scarr also left by a Wound, is by the LXX. termed foreign, Lev. 13.25. It is in general an express Representation of another thing communicated unto it, by an impression of its likeness upon it; opposed unto that which is umbratile and imaginary.
foreign.foreign, Substantiae, Subsistentiae Personae; Syr. foreign, substantiae ejus; Hypostasis, Substance, Subsistence, Person. The word is four times used in the New Testament. Thrice in this Epistle; In this place, and Chap. 3.14. and Chap. 11.1. as also, 2 Cor. 9.4. every where in a different sense; so that the meer Use of it in one place, will afford no Light unto the meaning of it in another; but it must be taken from the Context and subject treated of. The Composition of the word would denote substantia, but so as to differ from, and to add something unto foreign, Substance, or Being; which in the Divine Nature can be nothing but a special manner of subsistence. But the Controversie that hath been about the precise signification of these words, we shall not here enter into the Discussion of.
foreign.foreign, Agens, Regens, Moderans; acting, disposing, ruling, governing; also Portans, Bajulans, Sustinens; bearing, supporting, carrying, upholding; which of these senses is peculiarly intended, we shall afterwards enquire into.
foreign.foreign; by the Word of his Power; by his powerful word; Syr. foreign, by the Power of his Word; changing the order of the words, but not the meaning of them; by the Power of his Word, or the Word of his Power; that is, his powerful Word. foreign; some would read it foreign, and refer it unto the Father; by the powerful Word of him, that is of the Father, by whose Power, they say, the Son disposeth of all things. But all Copies with Accents have foreign, constantly, none foreign, nor will the disposition of the Words bear that reference.
foreign; by himself, in his own Person.
foreign.foreign. Purgationem faciens; Purgatione factâ. Having purged, cleansed, expiated, (or purified us from) our sins: Having made a Purgation or Purification of our sins.
foreign.foreign, is used both neutrally and actively; answering to foreign, both in Kal and Hiphil; signifying to sit down, and to cause to sit down. Chrysostom seems to have understood the Word in the latter sense; referring it to God the Father causing the Son to sit down. But it is hard to find any Antecedent Word whereby it should be regulated, but only foreign, Who, in the beginning of the verse; that is, he himself: And as Erasmus observes, foreign, in the following Words, will not Grammatically admit of this Construction; for if foreign, be to be understood actively and transitively, it must have been foreign. And the Apostle clears the neutral sense of the word, Chap. 8.1. It is well then rendered by our Translators; he sate, or sate down.
foreign.foreign, Psal. 110.1. foreign: LXX. foreign, in the Plural Number; so is the same thing expressed, Acts 7.55. and by Mark, foreign. Chap. 16.5. Our Apostle constantly keepeth the singular number, with foreign. Chap. 1.13. Chap. 8.1. Chap. 12.2. The same thing in both Expressions is intended; only that of foreign, or foreign, in the plural number is more eminently destructive of the folly of the Anthropomorphites; for they cannot hence pretend that God hath a right hand, unless they will grant that he hath many; which were not only to turn the Glory of the invisible God into the likeness of a man, but of a Monster. And Austin well observes, that in the Psalm, where that expression is first used, sit on my Right Hand; it is added, foreign, the Lord on thy right hand; at the Right hand of him, who sate on his right hand: which removes all Carnal Apprehensions from the meaning of the words.
foreign. This word is seldom used in other Authors; twice in this Epistle, foreignhere, and Chap. 8.1. once by Jude, v. 25. and no where else in the New Testament. by the LXX. not at all. The Apostle evidently expresseth by it foreign or foreign; not as they are used appellatively, for Glory, Power, or Majesty, but as they are names, and denote the essential glory of God; the glorious God. So that foreign, is God himself; not absolutely considered, but with reference unto the Revelation of his Glory and Majesty in Heaven; God on his Throne; as our Apostle declareth, Chap. 8.1.
foreign. in the Highest. foreign, is foreign; that is, foreign,foreign. the Highest, God himself: See Luke 1.35.