A53696:1421
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
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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. Mal. 3. Of old they unanimously agreed, that he was born whilst the Temple stood, or that day ⟨p. 9⟩that it was destroyed, as Aben Ezra confesseth on Isa. 53. Many stories out of them might be told to this purpose; where he was born, how, and of whom, to whom it was revealed by the [Greek or Hebrew], who saw him, where he was disposed of, where he is; but being all the fancies of idle curious heads, and unbelieving hearts, which St. Paul calls [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Tim. 4.7. profane and old wives fables, we shall not trouble the Reader with them. Abarbinel who in corrupting the Prophecies concerning the Messiah hath a reach beyond his fellows, affirms that Haggai speaks not of the Second, but of a Third Temple to be built under the Messiah; but this is nothing but a bold contradiction of the Prophet, who three or four times signally declares that he spake of that House which was then building, which their eyes saw, and which so many contemned as not to be compared with the former, Ch. 1.4. this House, Ch. 2.7. This House, v. 8. This House, so v. 18. Others say, that the glory of that House did not consist in the coming of the Messiah unto it, but in its duration and continuance; for it stood ten years longer than the former; But this also is contrary, 1. To the Catholic persuasion of their fore-fathers, Targums, Talmuds, and all ancient Doctors: 2. To experience; for what could the miserable languishing of ten years by that House, whilst it was by their own confession a Den of Thieves, contribute unto it to enable it to vie for glory with that wonder of the world the Temple of Solomon, in comparison whereof their fore-fathers thought it no more than some of them of old thought themselves compared to the Sons of Anak. 3. To the Truth; affirming, that the glory of that House was to consist in the coming of the Lord, whom they sought, the desire of all Nations unto it: All which things are vindicated in our Prolegomena.