A53696:1192
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.
Now, Because it is certain, that this is a form of the greatest and last Anathema, of a § 24 final and total Excommunication, and yet he who is devoted, is every where said to be [Greek or Hebrew] Muchram, and under the Cherem, it is almost evident, that these three degrees are not distinguished as is commonly supposed, namely, that the Shammatha should exceed the Cherem, and that only the Niddui, the highest and extremest sentence in this solemn form, being so often called the Cherem. Shammatha therefore is only a general Name for the Expulsion of a Person, sometimes with the Niddui, and sometimes with the Cherem, which yet I do not suppose was always thus horrid and fierce.
Now, Because it is certain, that this is a form of the greatest and last Anathema, of a § 24 final and total Excommunication, and yet he who is devoted, is every where said to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Muchram, and under the Cherem, it is almost evident, that these three degrees are not distinguished as is commonly supposed, namely, that the Shammatha should exceed the Cherem, and that only the Niddui, the highest and extremest sentence in this solemn form, being so often called the Cherem. Shammatha therefore is only a general Name for the Expulsion of a Person, sometimes with the Niddui, and sometimes with the Cherem, which yet I do not suppose was alwayes thus horrid and fierce.
To add unto the terror of this Sentence, they used to accompany the pronouncing § 25 of it with the sound of Trumpets and Horns, as the Targum says Barak did in his cursing of Mezoz, Judges 5.23. He shammatized him with four hundred Trumpets. And herein have they been imitated by the Church of Rome, in their shaking of Candles, and ringing of Bells on the like occasion.
To add unto the terror of this Sentence, they used to accompany the pronouncing § 25 of it with the sound of Trumpets and Horns, as the Targum sayes Barak did in his cursing of Mezoz,