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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.
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, Jer. 31.34. [Greek or Hebrew], and I was an husband unto them; or I was a Lord unto them, or ruled over them, as the Vulgar Latin renders the words. The Apostle with the LXX. [Greek or Hebrew], and I regarded them not, or despised them. The third is that from Habak. 2.4. [Greek or Hebrew], behold, it is listed up, his soul is not right in him; which words the Apostle with the LXX, render, [Greek or Hebrew]. But if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
The Principal difficulty about these Citations, lyes 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 Criticks. The first in that of Psalm 40. v. 7. where the words of the Psalmist in the Hebrew, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, my ears hast thou bored, or digged, are rendred by the Apostle according to the Translation of the LXX. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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,