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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.
For affirming that there were many hyperbata in the Style of this Apostle, which render it uneven and difficult, he confirms his Assertion with an instance in 2 Cor. 4.4. In whom the God of this World, bath blinded the minds of them which believe not: For, saith he, the Words should naturally have been thus placed; In whom God hath blinded the minds of them that in this world believe not. So to obviate a Foolish Sophism in the Valentinians, an Hyperbaton must be supposed in the Apostles Style, when indeed there is not the least colour of it. Upon the whole matter then, I shall confidently assert, that there is no manner of defect in any of his Writings; and that every thing, (consider the matter and nature of it, the Person in whose name he spake, and those to whom he wrote) is expressed as it ought to be for the end proposed, and not otherwise. And hence it is, that because of the variety of the Subject Matter treated of, and difference among the persons to whom he wrote, that there is also variety in his way and manner of expressing himself in sundry of his Epistles: And in many of them, there is such a discovery and manifestation of solid Eloquence, and pure Elegance of Speech, that the Observation of them in any Writing, is far from having any weight to prove it none of his.
For affirming that there were many hyperbata in the Style of this Apostle, which render it uneven and difficult, he confirms his Assertion with an instance in 2 Cor. 4.4. In whom the God of this World, bath blinded the minds of them which believe not: For, saith he, the Words should naturally have been thus placed; In whom God hath blinded the minds of them that in this world believe not. So to obviate a Foolish Sophism in the Valentinians, an Hyperbaton must be supposed in the Apostles Style, when indeed there is not the least colour of it. Upon the whole matter then, I shall confidently assert, that there is no manner of defect in any of his Writings; and that every thing, (consider the matter and nature of it, the Person in whose name he spake, and those to whom he wrote) is expressed as it ought to be for the end proposed, and not otherwise. And hence it is, that because of the variety of the Subject Matter treated of, and difference among the persons to whom he wrote, that there is also variety in his way and manner of expressing himself in sundry of his Epistles: And in many of them, there is such a discovery and manifestation of solid Eloquence, and pure Elegancy of Speech, that the Observation of them in any Writing, is far from having any weight to prove it none of his.