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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:4

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Hebrews3:4

4 For every house is builded by some man , but he that build all things is God .

The excellency of this Builder is evinced by his Nature and preference beyond his Building, as any Man is beyond his; for every Earthly Artificial Building, a material House built for Habitation, though it may Metaphorically and Analogically be understood of a Common-Wealth, or Political one, which is contrived, framed, and raised by some Man; yet an effect can't produce it self, nor a House raise it self; both must have a Cause, both the House wherein Moses was faithful, and Christ's House.

But he who built his Church in all Ages, whether the Israelitish or Christian, and all things about it, of which we speak, and all things else, Matth. 16.18. Iohn 1.1, 3. Col. 1.20. He is God essentially; and Christ doing God's work and building all things, is not by Name only, but by Nature, God. The whole World is his Workmanship, but the Church is the most rare, curious, and excellent Piece of it. Christ is not part of the House, as Moses is, but the Builder of it; He is the Creator and Builder▪ both of the Church and Him, and so infinitely above him.

Marginal references: Eph. 2.10.

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