A53696:130
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.
§ 9 The Objections that are laid by some against our Assignation of this Epistle unto St. Paul according unto the Order proposed, are nextly to be considered. These I shall pass through with what briefness I can, so as not to be wanting unto the Defensative designed.
Dissimilitude of Style, and manner of writing from that used by St. Paul in his other Epistles, is pressed in the first place, and principally insisted on. And indeed it is the whole of what with any colour of Reason is made use of in this Cause. This the Ancients admitted. The Elegance, propriety of Speech, and sometimes Loftiness, that occur in this Epistle, 1difference it, as they say, from those of St. Pauls writings. [Greek or Hebrew], saith Oecumenius; it seems not to be St. Pauls, because of the Style or Character of Speech. For this cause Clemens of Alexandria supposed it to be written in Hebrew, and to be translated into Greek by St. Luke the Evangelist; the Style of it, as he says, being like unto that which is used in the Acts of the Apostles; and yet that is acknowledged by all to be purely Greek, whereas this is accused to be full of Hebraisms, so little weight is to be laid on these Critical Censures, wherein Learned men perpetually contradict one another.
Dissimilitude of Style, and manner of writing from that used by St. Paul in his other Epistles, is pressed in the first place, and principally insisted on. And indeed it is the whole of what with any colour of Reason is made use of in this Cause. This the Antients admitted. The Elegancy, propriety of Speech, and sometimes Loftiness, that occurr in this Epistle, 1difference it, as they say, from those of St. Pauls writings. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, saith Oecumenius; it seems not to be St. Pauls, because of the Style or Character of Speech. For this cause Clemens of Alexandria supposed it to be written in Hebrew, and to be translated into Greek by St. Luke the Evangelist; the Style of it, as he sayes, being like unto that which is used in the Acts of the Apostles; and yet that is acknowledged by all to be purely Greek, whereas this is accused to be full of Hebraisms, so little weight is to be laid on these Critical Censures, wherein Learned men perpetually contradict one another.