A53696:1401
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.
"[Greek or Hebrew], Urim and Thummim the fourth thing.
"〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ʋrim and Thummim the fourth thing.
"[Greek or Hebrew], fire from Heaven, the fifth thing.
"〈non-Latin alphabet〉, fire frome Heaven, the fifth thing.
But as this Argument is ridiculous, both in general in wire-drawing Conclusions from letters deficient or redundant in writing, and in particular in reference to this word, which in other places is written as in this, as Numb. 24.12. 1 Sam. 2.20. Isa. 66.5. so the observation its self of the want of all these five things in the second House is very questionable, and seems to be invented to give countenance to the confessed ceasing of Prophecy, by which their Church had been planted, nourished and maintained, and now by its want was signified to be near expiration. For although I will grant that they might offer Sacrifices with other Fire, than that which was traduced from the flame descending from Heaven, though Nadab and Abihu were destroyed for so doing, because the Law of that Fire attended the giving of it, whence upon its providential ceasing, it was as lawful to use other fire in Sacrifice, as it was before its giving out; yet as to the Ark, the Urim and Thummim, the matter is more questionable; and as the anointing Oil out of question, because it being lawful for the High Priest to make it at any time, it was no doubt restored in the time of Ezra's Reformation. I know Abarbinel on Exod. Chap. 30. sec. [Greek or Hebrew], affirms that there was no High Priest anointed with oil under the second House, for which he gives this reason; [Greek or Hebrew], because the anointing Oil was now hid; [Greek or Hebrew], for Josiah had hid it with the rest of the holy things: a talmudical figment; to which he adds, [Greek or Hebrew], and they had no power to make it; I will not