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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.
James, and all the Hebrews in the world concurring with them in Judgement and Practice, about that very thing, wherein himself out of respect unto them had particularly miscarried? This certainly was rather the work of St. Paul, whose Light and Constancy in the Doctrine delivered in this Epistle, with his engagements in the defence of it, above all the rest of the Apostles, is known from the story of the Acts, and his own other Writings.
Apollos hath been thought by some to be the Penman of this Epistle; and that because § 6 it answers the Character given of him. For it is said, that he was an Eloquent man, 1mighty in the Scripture, fervent in Spirit, and one that mightily convinced the Jews out of the Scripture it self, Acts 18.24, 28. all which things appear throughout this whole Discourse. But this Conjecture hath no Countenance from Antiquity, no mention being made of any Epistle written by Apollos, or of any thing else, so that he is not reckoned by Hierom amongst the Ecclesiastical Writers, nor by those who interpolated that work with some Fragments out of Sophronius. Nor is he reported by Clemens, Origen, or Eusebius, to have been by any esteemed the Author of this Epistle. However I confess somewhat of moment might have been apprehended in the Observation mentioned, if the Excellencies ascribed unto Apollos, had been peculiar unto him; yea, had they not all of them been found in St. Paul, and that in a manner and degree, more eminent than in the other. But this being so, the ground of this Conjecture is taken from under it.
- 1Luther in Gen. cap. 48. v. 10.