A53696:1060
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.
§ 14 The time of its Institution, and Annual celebration, is exactly noted in the Scripture. It was the night before the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, which is thence called [Greek or Hebrew] Exod. 12.42. a night of observances, unto the Lord, that is, wherein his Institutions of this Ordinance were to be observed with great care and diligence. And this night fell in directly upon the expiration of the 430 years before limited, verse 40, 41. For the time of the year, it was in the month [Greek or Hebrew] Abib, as the Hebrews call the month of the Spring, which in those Eastern parts gave blades unto the corn, and other fruits of the earth, Exod. 13.4.23.15.34.18. Deut. 16.1. which afterwards by a Chaldee name was called Nisan, Nehem. 2.1. Esth. 3.7. and it answered partly to our March, partly to April, beginning before or at the Vernal Equinox, according to the distance of any year from the Embolisinical year. And from hence this month was appointed to be [Greek or Hebrew] the head, chief or principal of the months, Exod. 12.2. and so consequently the beginning of the year unto them; for before this, their year began and ended in September, upon the gathering in of the fruits of the earth, Exod. 23, 16. being the time, as most of the present Jews suppose, wherein the world was created. Neither yet was this change absolute unto all ends and purposes, but only as to Ecclesiastical Observances, and Feasts, that depended on their distance from this of the Passover. For their Civil Year, as to Contracts, Debts and Liberties, continued still to begin in September, with their Jubilees, Levit. 25.8, 9, 10. And from that beginning of the year, most probably, are the months to be reckoned that are mentioned in the continuance and ending of the flood,