A53696:269
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 Law or the Books of Moses they call [Greek or Hebrew], or the Pentateuch from the number of the Books; or [Greek or Hebrew], the fives, or the five parts of the Law; whereunto Hierom in his Epistle to Paulinus, wrests those words of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 14.19. I had rather speak [Greek or Hebrew], five words in the Church; as if he had respect to the Law of Moses.
The Law or the Books of Moses they call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or the Pentateuch from the number of the Books; or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the fives, or the five parts of the Law; whereunto Hierom in his Epistle to Paulinus, wrests those words of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 14.19. I had rather speak 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, five words in the Church; as if he had respect to the Law of Moses.
These five Books they divide into Paraschae, or Sections, whereof they read one each Sabbath day in their Synagogues; Genesis into twelve, Exodus into eleven, Leviticus into ten; Numbers into ten; Deuteronomy into ten; which all make fifty-three; whereby reading one each day, and two in one day, they read through the whole in the course of a year, beginning at the Feast of Tabernacles. And this they did of old, as James testifies, Acts 15.21. For Moses of Old time hath in every City them that preach him, being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day. Some of them make fifty four of these Sections, dividing the last of Genesis into two, beginning the latter at Chap. 47. v. 18. constituting the following Chapter in a distinct Section, though it have not the usual note of them prefixed unto it, but only one single Samech; to note, as they say, its being absolutely closed or shut up, on the account of the Prophecy of the coming of the Messiah, Chap. 49. whose season is unknown to them.