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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.
Whereas any of th•se Testimonies, or any part of any one of them may appear at § 17 first view to be applied by him unsuitably unto their Original importance and intention, we shall manifest, not only the contrary to be true, against those who have made such Exceptions, but also that he makes use of those which were most proper and cogent, with respect unto them with whom he had to do. For the Apostle in this Epistle, as shall be fully evidenced, disputes upon the acknowledged Principles and Concessions of the Hebrews. It was then incumbent on him to make use of such Testimonies, as were granted in their Church to belong unto the ends and purposes, for which by him they were produced. And that these are such, shall be evinced from their own ancient Writings and Traditions.
Whereas any of th•se Testimonies, or any part of any one of them may appear at § 17 first view to be applyed by him unsuitably unto their Original importance and intention, we shall manifest, not only the contrary to be true, against those who have made such Exceptions, but also that he makes use of those which were most proper and cogent, with respect unto them with whom he had to do. For the Apostle in this Epistle, as shall be fully evidenced, disputes upon the acknowledged Principles and Concessions of the Hebrews. It was then incumbent on him to make use of such Testimonies, as were granted in their Church to belong unto the ends and purposes, for which by him they were produced. And that these are such, shall be evinced from their own antient Writings and Traditions.
The Principal difficulty about these Citations, lies in those wherein the words of the § 18 Apostle are the same with those now extant in the Greek Bibles, both evidently departing from the Original. Three places of this kind are principally vexed by Expositors and Critics. The first in that of Psalm 40. v. 7. where the words of the Psalmist in the Hebrew, [Greek or Hebrew], my ears hast thou bored, or digged, are rendered by the Apostle according to the Translation of the LXX. [Greek or Hebrew], but a Body hast thou prepared me. That the Apostle doth rightly interpret the meaning of the Holy Ghost in the Psalm, and in his Paraphrase apply the words unto that very end for which they were intended, shall be cleared afterwards. The present difficulty concerns the Coincidence of his words, with those of the LXX. where apparently they answer not the Original. The next is that of the Prophet,