A53696:1412
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.
3. This Phrase of Speech is signally used in the Old Testament to denote the last days of the Judaical Church; So by Jacob, Gen. 49.1. I will tell you what shall befall you, [Greek or Hebrew], in the last days; which words the LXX. rendered, [Greek or Hebrew], the words here used by the Apostle. The days pointed unto by Jacob being those wherein the Messiah should come, before Judah was utterly deprived of Sceptre and Scribe. Again by Balaam the same words are used to signify the same time, Numb. 24.14. where they are rendered [Greek or Hebrew], in the end of the days, as many Copies read in this place. And in all the Prophets this is the peculiar notation of that season, [Greek or Hebrew], Mich. 4.1. Isa. 2.1. in the latter or last days; and [Greek or Hebrew], the He hajediah prefixed, noteth that course of days that were then running; as Deut. 31.29. Evil will overtake you, [Greek or Hebrew], in the end of those days; and the promise of the Conversion of some of the Jews by David their King is annexed to the same season, Hos. 3.5. From these places is the expression here used taken, denoting the last times of the Judaical Church, the times immediately preceding its rejection and final ruin. Hence Manasse lib. 3. de Resurrect. cap. 3. tells us out of Moses Gernudensis, [Greek or Hebrew], in every place that mentions the latter days, the days of the Messiah are to be understood, which saying of his is confirmed by Menasse himself, though attended with a gloss abominable and false, that is purely Judaical. The days of the Messiah, and the days of the end of the Judaical Church are the same. And these words are expressly also used by R.D. Kimchi. Comment. in Isa. 2. v. 2. who honestly refers all the words of that Prophecy unto the Messiah.
3. This Phrase of Speech is signally used in the Old Testament to denote the last dayes of the Judaical Church; So by Jacob,