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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.
§ 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, Psalm 40. [Greek or Hebrew] unto the humane nature and body of Christ, wherein he did the will of God, did certainly express the design and intention of the Holy Ghost in them. But who can imagine, what should move the LXX. to render [Greek or Hebrew] a word of a known signification and univocal, by [Greek or Hebrew], when they had translated it an hundred and fifty times, that is constantly elsewhere, by [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] an ear, which alone it signifies; or what should move them to render [Greek or Hebrew] by [Greek or Hebrew], to prepare, when the word signifies to dig, or to bore, and is always so elsewhere rendered by themselves? Neither did any such thing come into their minds in the Translation of those places whence this Expression seems to be borrowed, Exod. 21.6. Deut. 15.17. When any man then can give a tolerable conjecture, why the LXX. should be inclined thus to translate these words, I shall consider it. In the mean time I judge there is much more ground to suppose, that the Apostles expressions which he had weighty cause to use, were by some inserted into the Greek Text of the Old Testament, than that a Translation, which those that made it, had no cause so to do, evidently forsaking the proper meaning of very obvious words, and their sense, known to themselves, should be taken up and used by the Apostle unto his purpose.
§ 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,