A53696:194
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.
I know among the Rabbins there is mention of a prohibition of learning the Greek Tongue; and in the Jerusalem Talmud its self, Tit. Peah. cap. 1. they add a reason of it; [Greek or Hebrew], it was because of Traitors, least they should betray their Brethren, and ⟨p. 45⟩none understand them. But as this is contrary unto what themselves teach about the Knowledge of Tongues, required in those who were to be chosen into the Sanhedrin, so it is sufficiently disproved by the instances of the Translators of the Bible, Jesus Syrachides, Philo, Josephus, and others among themselves. And though Josephus affirm, Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 9. that the Study of the Elegance of Tongues was of no great reckoning amongst them, yet he grants that they were studied by all sorts of men. Nor doth this pretended Decree of prohibition concern our times, it being made as they say, Mishn. tit. Sota; in the last Wars of Titus, [Greek or Hebrew] In the Wars of Titus they decreed, that no man should teach his Son the Greek Language. For it must be distinguished from the Decree of the Hasmoneans long before, prohibiting the Study of the Grecian Philosophy. So that this pretence is destitute of all colour, being made up of many vain and evidently false suppositions. § 3
I know among the Rabbins there is mention of a prohibition of learning the Greek Tongue; and in the Jerusalem Talmud its self, Tit. Peah. cap. 1. they add a reason of it; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it was because of Traytors, least they should betray their Brethren, and ⟨p. 45⟩none understand them. But as this is contrary unto what themselves teach about the Knowledge of Tongues, required in those who were to be chosen into the Sanhedrim, so it is sufficiently disproved by the instances of the Translators of the Bible, Jesus Syrachides, Philo, Josephus, and others among themselves. And though Josephus affirm, Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 9. that the Study of the Elegance of Tongues was of no great reckoning amongst them, yet he grants that they were studied by all sorts of men. Nor doth this pretended Decree of prohibition concern our times, it being made as they say, Mishn. tit. Sota; in the last Wars of Titus, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 In the Wars of Titus they decreed, that no man should teach his Son the Greek Language. For it must be distinguished from the Decree of the Hasmonaeans long before, prohibiting the Study of the Graecian Philosophy. So that this pretence is destitute of all colour, being made up of many vain and evidently false suppositions. § 3