A53696:1288
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.
Sheep also they sacrificed, especially Lambs, to Jupiter, Minerva, and Diana; and § 16 Goats or Kids to Bacchus. Whence is that of the Poet.
Rode caper vites, tamen hinc cum stabis ad aras, In tua quod spargi cornua, possit, erit. The Vines cropped by the Goat, yet Wine suffice To sprinkle him when made a sacrifice.
Rode caper vites, tamen hinc cum stabis ad aras, In tua quod spargi cornua, possit, erit. The Vines cropt by the Goat, yet Wine suffice To sprinkle him when made a sacrifice.
Which as Suetonius testifies, was bitterly reflected on Nero Caesar upon his foolish Edict for the cutting down of Vines in Italy. Birds or Fowls also they offered or sacrificed, but without distinction; Cocks, Geese, Turtles, and the like.
§ 17 But besides these things that were of ancient Tradition, they added as the matter of their Sacrifices all sorts of living Creatures, even such as the Law of nature refused, and such as among the Jews were in an especial manner forbidden; neither ever were they in use amongst the first Fathers of the world, until after the Babylonian dispersion. Of the first sort was their sacrificing of men, which I have elsewhere showed to have been Catholic in the world. Of the latter, to omit Horses, Dogs, and the like, we may take an instance in that of Swine. [Greek or Hebrew], the Offerings of Swine, was the principal, and as the most of them judged the most ancient kind of Sacrifice amongst them. This they constantly used, whether in Consecrations, or Lustrations, or Confirmations of Covenants, the most solemn occasions of their Sacrifices. So in the first way he speaks in Aristophanes,