A53696:237
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.
First, It is evident that they are exceedingly mistaken, who affirm that the Apostle cites § 15 all his Testimonies out of the Translation of the LXX. as we intimated, that it is by some pleaded, in the close of the preceding Discourse. The words he useth in very few of them agree exactly with that Greek Version of the Old Testament which is now extant; though, apparently since the writing of this Epistle it hath grown in its Verbal conformity unto the Allegations as reported in the New. And in most of them he varieth from it, either in the use of his own Liberty, or in a more exact rendering of the Original Text. This the first prospect of the places and words compared will evince. Should he have had any respect unto that Translation, it were impossible to give any tolerable account, whence he should so much differ from it, almost in every quotation, as is plain that he doth.
First, It is evident that they are exceedingly mistaken, who affirm that the Apostle cites § 15 all his Testimonies out of the Translation of the LXX. as we intimated, that it is by some pleaded, in the close of the preceding Discourse. The words he useth in very few of them agree exactly with that Greek Version of the Old Testament which is now extant; though, apparently since the writing of this Epistle it hath grown in its Verball conformity unto the Allegations as reported in the New. And in most of them he varieth from it, either in the use of his own Liberty, or in a more exact rendring of the Original Text. This the first prospect of the places and words compared will evince. Should he have had any respect unto that Translation, it were impossible to give any tolerable account, whence he should so much differ from it, almost in every quotation, as is plain that he doth.
It is also undeniably manifest from this view of his words that the Apostle did not § 16 scrupulously confine himself unto the precise words either of the Original, or any Translation whatever, if any other Translation or Targum were then extant besides that of the LXX. Observing and expressing the sense of the Testimonies which he thought meet to produce and make use of, he used great Liberty, as did other holy Writers of the New Testament, according to the guidance of the Holy Ghost by whose inspiration he wrote, in expressing them by words of his own And who shall blame him for so doing? Who should bind him to the Rules of Quotations, which sometimes Necessity, sometimes Curiosity, sometimes the Cavils of other men impose upon us in our Writings? Herein the Apostle used that Liberty which the Holy Ghost gave unto him, without the least prejudice unto Truth, or the Faith of the Church.