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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
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§ 12 Neither are the other Epistles of St. Paul written in so low and homely a Style as is pretended.1 Chrysostom speaking of him tells us, [Greek or Hebrew]; and that for his Eloquence he was esteemed Mercury by the Gentiles. Somewhat hath been spoken hereunto before, whereunto I shall now only add the Words of a Person who was no incompetent Judge in things of this nature.2 Quum, saith he, orationis ipsius totam indolem & [Greek or Hebrew] proprius considero, nullam ego in ipso Platone similem grandiloquentiam, quoties illi libuit Dei Mysteria detonare, nullam in Demosthene parum [Greek or Hebrew], comperisse me fateor, quoties animos velmetu Divini Judicii perterrefacere, vel commonefacere, vel ad contemplandam Dei bonitatem attrahere, vel ad pietatis & misericordiae officia constituit adhortari, nullam denique vel in ipso Aristotle & Galeno praestantissimis alioquin artificibus, magis exactam docendi Methodum invenio. When I well consider the Genius and Character of the Speech and Style of this Apostle, I confess I never found that Grandeur in Plato himself, as in him, when he thundereth out the Mysteries of God; nor that Gravity and Vehemency in Demosthenes as in him, when he intends to terrify the minds of men, with a dread of the Judgements of God, or would warn them, or draw them to the contemplation of his Goodness, or the performance of the Duties of Piety and Mercy; Nor do I find a more exact Method of Teaching in those great and excellent Masters, Aristotle, and Galen, than in him. So it is plainly, so the Greek Fathers almost with one consent do testify, so do most of the Latins also, so the best Learned of the later Critics, and so may it be defended against any opposition. And Hierom himself, who takes most Liberty to censure his Style, doth so far in other places forget his own temerity therein, as to cry out against those, who dreamed as he speaks, that St. Paul was not throughly acquainted with all propriety of Speech. And he who was the first that ever spake word about any defect of this kind, though as able to judge as any one what ever who hath since passed his Censure unto the same purpose, was in an evident mistake in the very instance which he pitched on to confirm his Observation. This was Irenaeus, one of the first and most Learned of the Greek Fathers;
§ 12 Neither are the other Epistles of St. Paul written in so low and homely a Style as is pretended.