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Timothy to Hebrews - The Preterist Archive

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872 <strong>Hebrews</strong> III. 5, 6.<br />

bv the preceding statement, every house isfounded by some man; this<br />

would only have meaning on the supposition that the author's intention<br />

was <strong>to</strong> represent both Moses and Christ as founders of houses,<br />

and accordingly, <strong>to</strong> represent only the houses themselves as differin"-<br />

in honour. This he certainly mir/ht have done (for Moses<br />

mi^-ht quite properly be considered as the founder of the Old Testament<br />

economy); this, however, he has not done, but rather has<br />

farther carried out* in vers. 5, 6, the opposition introduced at ver. 4<br />

between Christ as the son of the house, and Moses as the servant.<br />

If, then, we would not bring <strong>to</strong>tal confusion in<strong>to</strong> the author's train<br />

of thought, -we must depart from that interpretation, and determine<br />

with Olshauscn, etc., <strong>to</strong> understand 6e6

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