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Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole economy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the ancient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole oeconomy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the antient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668
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§ 6 His Nativity and Education was in Ur of the Chaldees, Gen. 11.28, 31. This place is said to be, on the other side of the flood, [Greek or Hebrew]; or the River, Josh. 24.2. that is, from the Land of Canaan on the other side of the great River Euphrates eastward. It was so also of Tigris, on the East of Aram Naharaim, or Mesopotamia, properly so called; which is not insisted on, because Abraham came over Tigris unto Haran with his Father Terah. He came out, saith Stephen, from the Land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Canaan, Acts 7.4. he says indeed, that before he came unto Canaan, he dwelt in Mesopotamia, v. 2. wherein Haran was also. For the name of Mesopotamia was given of old unto all the adjacent Regions, even unto the Persian Sea. So doth Pliny evidently. lib. 6. cap. 26. Mesopotamia tota Assyriorum fuit vicatim dispersa, praeter Babylona, & Ninum. All Mesopotamia belonged unto the Assyrians, and consuled of scattered Villages, unless it were Babylonia and the Country about Nineveth. And again, Reliqua pars Mesopotamiae Assyriaeque-Babylonia appellata est. So that he equals Mesopotamia, with Assyria; which how great a Tract of those Regions it comprehended, is manifest from Ptolemy, Strabo and others. Eupolemus in Eusebius, praeparat. Evang. l. 9. placeth [Greek or Hebrew], Ura in Babylonia: and there also Pliny mentioneth Ura upon the banks of Euphrates, lib. 5. cap. 24. Fertur Euphrates usque ad Uram. But this seems not to be the Ur where Abraham dwelt. Nor was there any reason that in a design for Canaan, he should remove from any part of Babylonia upon Euphrates unto Charan. It is more likely to be the place mentioned by Ammianus lib. 5. where he says, that the Romans in six days came from Corduena in Armenia, ad Ur nomine, Persicum Castellum; unto Ur a Persian Castle. And this he placeth between Nisibis and Tigris, and was not far from the place, where it is probably supposed that the Ark rested after the flood; the family of Heber keeping their first Seat, not accompanying, the [Greek or Hebrew] or Sons of men, Gen. 11.2, 3, 4. those wicked Apostates who went from the East, to find a place to fix the Seat of their Rebellion against God. Broughton contendeth, that Ur was in the Vale of the Chaldeans, that is in Babylonia, a very little way, or some few miles from Charan;