A53696:1178
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.
For there are two sorts of persons mentioned, that were over the people in respect of their works, even in Egypt, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Exactors or Task-Masters, and Officers, Exod. 5.6. the former, or the Nogheshim the Jews say were Egyptians, and the latter, or the Shoterim, Israelites, which occasions that distinct expression of them: Pharaoh commanded the same day the Task-masters of the People, and their Officers: and v. 13, 14. And the Task-Masters hasted them, saying, fulfil your works, and the Officers of the Children of Israel were beaten. And they tell us in Midrash Rabba, on Exod. Sect. 1. that one of these Nogheshim was over ten of the Israelitish Officers; and one of them over ten Israelites; whence was the following division of the people into tens and hundreds, and unto this in the same place, they add a putid Story of an Exactor killed by Moses.
For there are two sorts of persons mentioned, that were over the people in respect of their works, even in Aegypt, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Exactors or Task-Masters, and Officers, Exod. 5.6. the former, or the Nogheshim the Jews say were Aegyptians, and the latter, or the Shoterim, Israelites, which occasions that distinct expression of them: Pharaoh commanded the same day the Task-masters of the People, and their Officers: and v. 13, 14. And the Task-Masters hasted them, saying, fulfill your works, and the Officers of the Children of Israel were beaten. And they tell us in Midrash Rabba, on Exod. Sect. 1. that one of these Nogheshim was over ten of the Israelitish Officers; and one of them over ten Israelites; whence was the following division of the people into tens and hundreds, and unto this in the same place, they add a putid Story of an Exactor killed by Moses.
§ 15 What was the Authority of these, and how it was executed by them in Egypt nothing is recorded. Probably, at the beginning of their works and Afflictions they were made use of only to answer for the pretended neglects or miscarriages of the multitude of their Brethren, as