A53696:1050
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Whilst Abraham lived with his Progenitors in Ur, there is no doubt but he § 7 was with them infected with much false Worship and Idolatry; For so Joshua affirms expressly, that they served [Greek or Hebrew], chap. 24.3. even those, whose Worship God afterwards prohibited in the first Precept of the Law; [Greek or Hebrew], there shall not be unto thee other Gods; those, or such as those, whom they served beyond the flood. Other Gods are all false gods. The Jews imagination about the discovery made by Abraham of the true God, his renunciation of all Idolatry thereon, with the breaking of his Fathers Images, and his being cast for that cause by Nimrod into the fire, all about the forty fourth year of his Age, I have considered and exploded elsewhere. And all these figments with that of Haran's being consumed by fire in the sight of his Father, they withdraw from the supposed signification of the name [Greek or Hebrew]; which they would have to signify fire, Gen. 11.28. but as where it relates unto the Chaldeans (Ur of the Chaldees) it is apparently the name of a place, a Town, or Country, so it rather signifies a Valley, then fire. And those words, Isa. 24. v. 3. [Greek or Hebrew], which we translate in the Text, Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, may be better read as in the Margin, in the Valleys, which better answers unto the following words: And the name of the Lord God of Israel in the Isles of the Sea. At what year of his age, he left Ur with his Father is not expressed. But it is apparent, that it was towards the latter end of the life of Terah; Even after the death of Haran his Eldest Son; and that Nahor and Abraham were married to Milcha and Isca his daughters, and Sarah had continued barren some remarkable space of time, Gen. 11.28, 29, 30, 31, 32.
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