A53696:242
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.
§ 20 I say then, it is highly probable, that the Apostle according to his wonted manner, which appears in almost all the Citations used by him in this Epistle, reporting the sense and importance of the places, in words of his own, the Christian Transcribers of the Greek Bible inserted his expressions into the Text, either as judging them a more proper Version of the Original, whereof they were ignorant, than that of the LXX, or out of a preposterous zeal to take away the appearance of a diversity between the Text and the Apostles citation of it. And thus in those Testimonies where there is a real variation from the Hebrew Original, the Apostle took not his words from the Translation of the LXX, but his words were afterwards inserted into that Translation. And this as we have partly made to appear already in sundry instances, so it shall now briefly be farther confirmed. For,
§ 20 I say then, it is highly probable, that the Apostle according to his wonted manner, which appears in almost all the Citations used by him in this Epistle, reporting the sense and importance of the places, in words of his own, the Christian Transcribers of the Greek Bible inserted his expresions into the Text, either as judging them a more proper Version of the Original, whereof they were ignorant, than that of the LXX, or out of a preposterous zeal to take away the appearanc• of a diversity between the Text and the Apostles citation of it. And thus in those Testimonies where there is a real variation from the Hebrew Original, the Apostle took not his words from the Translation of the LXX, but his words were afterwards inserted into that Translation. And this as we have partly made to appear already in sundry instances, so it shall now briefly be farther confirmed. For,
§ 21 First, Whereas the Reasons of the Apostle for his Application of the Testimonies used by him in his words and expressions, are evident, as shall in particular be made to appear, so no Reason can be assigned, why the LXX. (if any such LXX. there were) who translated the Old Testament, or any other Translators of it, should so render the words of the Hebrew Text. Neither Various Lections, nor ambiguity of signification in the words of the Original can in most of them be pleaded. For instance, The Apostle in applying those words of the Psalmist,