A53696:1171
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.
But what this punishment was, or wherein it did consist, neither Jews nor Christians are absolutely agreed; the latter on this subject doing little more then representing the opinions and judgments of the other, which course also we may follow. Some of them say, that Untimely Death is meant by it, so Abarbinel on Numb. 5.22. [Greek or Hebrew] It is the cutting off the days of the sinner, and his death before the natural term of it inflicted by the hand of Heaven. This untimely death they reckon to be between the years of twenty and sixty; whence Schindler, [Greek or Hebrew] exterminium; cum quis praematurâ morte inter vigessimum & sexagessimum annum à Deo è medio tollitur; ita tamen ut relinquat liberos: Cutting off, is, when any one is taken away by untimely death, between the twentieth and sixtieth year of his age; yet so, as that he leave children. That clause or condition, so that yet he leave posterity or children behind him, is, as far as I can find, no where added by them, nor doth any thing in the Scripture give countenance thereunto. Yea, many of the Hebrews think, that this punishment consisted in this, that such a one should leave no children behind him, but that either he should be wholly [Greek or Hebrew], without children, or if he had any before his sin, they should all die before him, and so his name and posterity be cut off, which, say they, is to be cut off from among his people. So Aben-Ezra on Gen. 17.14. And this opinion is not without its countenance from the Scripture it self. And therefore Jarchi on the same place, with much probability, puts both these together, He shall be cut off by untimely death, and leave no children behind him to continue his name or remembrance amongst the people, [Greek or Hebrew] as they speak. He that hath no children is accounted as dead; but he that hath, is as if he lived, and his name is not cut off.
But what this punishment was, or wherein it did consist, neither Jews nor Christians are absolutely agreed; the latter on this subject doing little more then representing the opinions and judgments of the other, which course also we may follow. Some of them say, that Ʋntimely Death is meant by it, so Abarbinel on Numb. 5.22. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 It is the cutting off the days of the sinner, and his death before the natural term of it inflicted by the hand of Heaven. This untimely death they reckon to be between the years of twenty and sixty; whence Schindler, exterminium; cum quis praematurâ morte inter vigessimum & sexagessimum annum à Deo è medio tollitur; ita tamen ut relinquat liberos: Cutting off, is, when any one is taken away by untimely death, between the twintieth and sixtieth year of his age; yet so, as that he leave children. That clause or condition, so that yet he leave posterity or children behind him, is, as far as I can find, no where added by them, nor doth any thing in the Scripture give countenance thereunto. Yea, many of the Hebrews think, that this punishment consisted in this, that such a one should leave no children behind him, but that either he should be wholly , without children, or if he had any before his sin, they should all die before him, and so his name and posterity be cut off, which, say they, is to be cut off from among his people. So Aben-Ezra on