A53696:1405
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 ought then appears to the contrary, the Ark might be in the second House, and be carried thence to Rome with the Book of the Law, which Josephus expressly mentions. And therefore the same Abarbinel, in his Comment. on Joel tells us, that Israel by Captivity out of his own Land lost [Greek or Hebrew] three excellent gifts, Prophecy, Miracles, and Divine Knowledge, (Psal. 74.9.) all which he grants, were to be restored by the Messiah; without mention of the other things before recited. And they confess this openly in Sota distinc. Egla hampha. [Greek or Hebrew]; after the death of the latter Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, the holy Spirit was taken away from Israel.
For ought then appears to the contrary, the Ark might be in the second House, and be carried thence to Rome with the Book of the Law, which Josephus expresly mentions. And therefore the same Abarbinel, in his Comment. on Joel tells us, that Israel by Captivity out of his own Land lost 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 three excellent gifts, Prophecy, Miracles, and Divine Knowledge, (Psal. 74.9.) all which he grants, were to be restored by the Messiah; without mention of the other things before recited. And they confess this openly in Sota distinc. Egla hampha. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; after the death of the latter Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachy, the holy Spirit was taken away from Israel.
It is then confessed that God ceased to speak to the Church in Prophets as to their Oral teaching and writing, after the days of Malachi; which reason of the want of Vision, though continuing four hundred years and upwards, is called by Haggai, Chap. 2.8. [Greek or Hebrew], unum pusillum, a little while, in reference to the continuance of it from the days of Moses; whereby the Jews may see that they are long since past all grounds of expectation of its restoration, all Prophecy having left them double the time that their Church enjoyed it, which cannot be called [Greek or Hebrew] a little while in comparison thereof. To return,