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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 6:20

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Hebrews6:20

20 Whither the forerunner is for us entred , even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec i.

This Heaven is actually possessed for us already by a Harbinger, who came at his Father's Word to fit and prepare us for it, and then again returned in our Nature, and as our Head and Representative he hath entred, made the way open, and paved the Coast for us thither, and made it plain and safe; and having taken real and full possession, is making ready our Mansions; and when he hath compleated his Work in us, will come and take and carry us thither, and put us into the full possession of it in our Persons, ch. 9.24. Iohn 14.2, 3, 4.

He describeth the Forerunner to be God the Son incarnate, the Saviour of Believers, he that will keep them safe for it, and set them safe in it. Their Iesus who as to his Office is the great Gospel-High-Priest, had fulfilled his Type, and put an end to it by his entring within the Veil into the Holy of Holiest in Heaven, being constituted by his Father a Royal High-Priest, superior to all other Orders and Persons, an High-Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedec, mentioned before, ch. 5.10. where the Spirit begun a Digression, and having here ended it, repeats the Description of him again, as the thing to be immediately handled and pursued, as he doth in the next Chapter.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.1.

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