A53696:334
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.
And these words are very consonant to those of our Apostle, Rom. 5.12. As by one man Sin entered into the World, and Death by Sin, so Death passed upon all men, for that, or because in him all have sinned. To the same purpose speaks the Targum on Eccles. 7. v. 29. in the Copies followed by the Jayan and London Bibles; (for so the words are not in those of Buxtorf, nor the Biblia Regia) God made the First man upright and innocent before him, but the Serpent and Eve seduced him, [Greek or Hebrew], and gave cause why the day of Death should come on him and all the Inhabitants of the Earth. And we can have no more Authentic Testimony of the Apprehensions of their ancient Doctors, than what their Targums afford us. And therefore Joseph Albo in Scher Itharim expressly concludes lib. 1. chap. 11. that all the punishments relating unto Adam and Eve for their first Sin belong unto all mankind. And whereas they fancy that some Persons spent their days without actual sin; at least any such as should deserve Death, they charge their Death on the guilt of the sin of Adam. So the Targum on the last Chapter of Ruth; And Hobed begat Jesse, who was called Nachash, and there was no iniquity, or corruption in him for which he should be delivered into the h•nd of the Angel of Death to take his soul from him; and he lived man• days, until the Counsel that the Serpent gave to Eve, abode before the Lord; and upon that Couns•ll were all the inhabitants of the Earth made guilty of death, and upon the a•••unt of that sin dyed Jesse the Righteous. Lud. Capellus in his Annotations on John 3. hath an observation on this passage in the Targum, not unworthy consideration. The J•ws call Jesus [Greek or Hebrew] without [Greek or Hebrew]: which differs little from [Greek or Hebrew]; and so he may be here intended; for he may be called [Greek or Hebrew] both because he was prefigured by the Brazen Serpent, and because the Names of [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] are the same by Gematry, or in their Numeral Letters; a great occasion amongst them to change the Names of Persons and things. And this they might have from some Tradition which they understood not. The like Testimony we have in Siphre;