A53696:1420
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.
1. For the Continuance of their State, until the coming of the Messiah, Gen. 49.11. Some say, that by Shiloh the Messiah is not intended; who are confuted by their own Targums, all rendering the word Messiah, and the constant Tradition of the Elder Doctors; Some that by the Sceptre and Scribe, that the Rod of Affliction and Instruction only are intended; which is a gloss evidently contrary to the design of the Prophecy, the use of the words in all places where their sense is not restrained by evident circumstances, the Targums, all Old Writers; asserting that which was not peculiar to Judah, nor true in its self, that Tribe having for so long a season enjoyed as flourishing a condition as any people in the world, as good as the Jews look for under the Messiah. This State then is utterly gone, and their Messiah as it seems not come.
1. For the Continuance of their State, untill the coming of the Messiah, Gen. 49.11. Some say, that by Shilo the Messiah is not intended; who are confuted by their own Targums, all rendring the word Messiah, and the constant Tradition of the Elder Doctors; Some that by the Scepter and Scribe, that the Rod of Affliction and Instruction only are intended; which is a gloss evidently contrary to the design of the Prophecy, the use of the words in all places where their sense is not restrained by evident circumstances, the Targums, all Old Writers; asserting that which was not peculiar to Judah, nor true in its self, that Tribe having for so long a season enjoyed as flourishing a condition as any people in the world, as good as the Jews look for under the Messiah. This State then is utterly gone, and their Messiah as it seems not come.
2. What say they unto their Temple, that second House whereunto he was to come, and so render the glory of it greater than that of the former, Hag. 2.