A53696:1309
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.
§ 25 The Name, as was in part before observed, is, as of an uncertain Original, so variously used and applied. Sometimes it is used for a Civil Gift of men one to another; or a present, 1 Sam. 10.27. Sometimes for any Offering or Sacrifice. So Abel's Sacrifice which was in especial a Burnt-Offering, is called his Mincha, Gen. 3. Hence it is sometimes rendered in the New Testament by [Greek or Hebrew], a Sacrifice, a bloody Sacrifice, Matth. 9.49. Acts 7.42. And our Apostle from Psal. 40.6. renders [Greek or Hebrew], Sebach and Mincha, by [Greek or Hebrew], Heb. 10.5. Sacrifice and Offering; by both a which terms Sacrifices only of Atonement and Propitiation were intended, and not the especial Meat-Offering, which was properly Eucharistical, and not Propitiatory. And the expression in that of the Psalmist, answers directly unto what God speaks concerning the house of Eli, 1 Sam. 3.14. The sin of the house of Eli shall not be expiated, [Greek or Hebrew], neither by Sebach, nor by Mincha: that is, by no sort of Sacrifices appointed to make Atonement, or to expiate sin. So also is the word used, 1 Sam. 26.19. But as it denotes the especial Offering now under consideration, it was not ordinarily appointed to make Atonement. I say not ordinarily, because there was an especial dispensation in the case of the Poor man, who was allowed to bring Flower and Oil, the matter of the Mincha, instead of the [Greek or Hebrew], Ascham, or Trespass-Offering, Levit. 5.11, 12. And yet Atonement properly was not made thereby; only in it, or the appointment of it, there was a testification of Gods acceptance of the Person with a non obstante for his Trespass. And hence doth our Apostle use his [Greek or Hebrew], his almost in this business, Heb. 9.22. Almost all things are purged with blood. The like allowance was in the Offering of the jealous Person: It was to consist of Barley Meal, the matter of the Meat-Offering; but it made no Atonement; for it is expressly said, That it was to bring sin to remembrance;