A53696:402
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.
First, Because in and with the Serpent, Satan who was the Head of all Apostasy from God, and by whom our first Parents were beguiled, is intended in these words. This we have made evident from the Confession of the Jews with whom in this matter principally we have to do. And to what hath been already observed unto that purpose, we may add the Testimonies of some other of them to the same Purpose, Rabbi Bechai, he whom they call [Greek or Hebrew], Bechai the Elder, in his Comment on the Law unto these words, Gen. 3. v. 15. speaks to this purpose. We have no more enmity with the Serpent than with other creeping things. Wherefore the Scripture Mystically signifies him who was hid in the Serpent. For the body of the crafty Serpent was a fit instrument for that force, or virtue, that joined its self therewithal. That was it which made Eve to sin, whence death came on all her Posterity. And this is the Enmity between the Serpent and the seed of the Woman. And this is the Mystery of the Holy Tongue, that the Serpent is sometimes called Saraph, according to the name of an Angel, who is also called Saraph. And now thou knowest that the Serpent is Satan, and the evil Figment, and the Angel of Death. And Rabbi Judah; in [Greek or Hebrew]. Many Interpreters say, that the Evil Figment hath all its force from the Old Serpent; or Satan. To the same purpose, the Author of [Greek or Hebrew], Caphtor Vapaerach; The Devil and the Serpent are called by one name. ⟨p. 88⟩And many other Testimonies of the like importance might be collected out of them.
First, Because in and with the Serpent, Satan who was the Head of all Apostasie from God, and by whom our first Parents were beguiled, is intended in these words. This we have made evident from the Confession of the Jews with whom in this matter principally we have to do. And to what hath been already observed unto that purpose, we may add the Testimonies of some other of them to the same Purpose, Rabbi Bechai, he whom they call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Bechai the Elder, in his Comment on the Law unto these words, Gen. 3. v. 15. speaks to this purpose. We have no more enmity with the Serpent than with other creeping things. Wherefore the Scripture Mystically signifies him who was hid in the Serpent. For the body of the crafty Serpent was a fit instrument for that force, or vertue, that joyned its self therewithall. That was it which made Eve to sin, whence death came on all her Posterity. And this is the Enmity between the Serpent and the seed of the Woman. And this is the Mysterie of the Holy Tongue, that the Serpent is sometimes called Saraph, according to the name of an Angel, who is also called Saraph. And now thou knowest that the Serpent is Satan, and the evil Figment, and the Angel of Death. And Rabbi Judah; in . Many Interpreters say, that the Evil Figment hath all its force from the Old Serpent; or Satan. To the same purpose, the Author of , Caphtor Vapaerach; The Devil and the Serpent are called by one name.