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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.
Of the Language wherein this Epistle was Originally written. Supposed to be the Hebrew. Grounds of that Supposition. Disproved. Not translated by Clemens. Written in Greek. Arguments for the proof thereof. Of Citations out of the LXX.
§ 1 Because this Epistle was written to the Hebrews, most of the Ancients granted that it was written in Hebrew. Clemens Alexandrinus was the first who asserted it; after whom Origen gave it countenance, from whom Eusebius received it, and from him Hierom, which is the most ordinary progression of old reports. The main Reason which induced them to embrace this persuasion, was a desire to free the Epistle from an exception against its being written by Paul; taken from the dissimilitude of the Style used in it, unto that of his other Epistles. This being once admitted, though causelessly, they could think of no better answer, than that this supposed difference of Style, arose from the Translation of this Epistle, which by the Apostle himself was first written in Hebrew. Clemens Romanus is the person generally fixed on as the Author of this Translation; though some do faintly intimate that Luke the Evangelist might possibly be the man that did it. But this Objection from the diversity of Style, which alone begat this persuasion, hath been already removed out of the Way, so that it cannot be allowed to be a Foundation unto any other supposition.
§ 1 BEcause this Epistle was written to the Hebrews, most of the Antients granted that it was written in Hebrew. Clemens Alexandrinus was the first who asserted it; after whom Origen gave it countenance, from whom Eusebius received it, and from him Hierom, which is the most ordinary progression of old reports. The main Reason which induced them to embrace this perswasion, was a desire to free the Epistle from an exception against its being written by Paul; taken from the dissimilitude of the Style used in it, unto that of his other Epistles. This being once admitted, though causelesly, they could think of no better answer, than that this supposed difference of Style, arose from the Translation of this Epistle, which by the Apostle himself was first written in Hebrew. Clemens Romanus is the person generally fixed on as the Author of this Translation; though some do faintly intimate that Luke the Evangelist might possibly be the man that did it. But this Objection from the diversity of Style, which alone begat this perswasion, hath been already removed out of the Way, so that it cannot be allowed to be a Foundation unto any other supposition.