A53696:437
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.
So those words of the Children of the Prophets who came down from the High Place with Psalteries and Harps, [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Sam. 10. v. 5. and they are Prophesying, is rendered in the Targum, [Greek or Hebrew], and they are praising, or singing Praises unto God; which both their company and their▪ instruments declare to have been their Employment. But such occasions as these, do they lay hold of, for the raising of their Figments which in process of time grow to be Traditions.
So those words of the Children of the Prophets who came down from the High Place with Psalteries and Harps, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Sam. 10. v. 5. and they are Prophecying, is rendred in the Targum, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and they are praising, or singing Praises unto God; which both their company and their▪ instruments declare to have been their Employment. But such occasions as these, do they lay hold of, for the raising of their Figments which in process of time grow to be Traditions.
§ 10 Numb. 23. v. 21. Chap. 24. v. 7, 17, 20, 24. All the Targum agree that the Messiah is intended in these Prophesies of Balaam. Especially on those words, Chap. 24. v. 17. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre out of Israel; A King, say they jointly, shall arise out of Jacob, [Greek or Hebrew], and the Messiah shall be anointed And an illustrious Prophecy it is no doubt, concerning his Coming and Dominion▪ who is the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star. Rashi interprets the place of David, who smote the Corners of Moab, as he was in many things a Type of Christ. Aben Ezra confesseth that many interpret the words concerning the Messiah; And Maimonides distributes the Prophecy between David and the Messiah, assigning some things unto one, some to another; Tractat. de Regib. in [Greek or Hebrew] also they grant it to be the Prophecy of the Messiah. And there is no doubt of the sense of their ancient Masters from the story of Bar Coziba, whom after they had accepted of for their Messiah from this place they called Bar Chocheba; Akiba applying this Prediction of [Greek or Hebrew], or the Star unto him. And Fagius on the Targum in this place, observes that in the name [Greek or Hebrew] Chochab applied unto the Messiah, the Cabbalists observe two things; First, That the two first Letters signify the same number with the Letters of [Greek or Hebrew] the Name of God, that is twenty six; and the two latter twenty two, the number of the Letters of the Law. The observation is sufficiently Talmudical; but the intendment of it, that the Messiah hath in him the Name of God, and shall fulfil the whole Law, is a blessed Truth. This Fagius, and Munster before him observed out of [Greek or Hebrew] (a Bundle of Myrrh;) a Cabalistical Comment on the Pentateuch, by R. Abraham. But they all contend against the Application of this Prediction unto our Lord Jesus Christ: for when say they did he smite the Corners of Moab; when did he destroy all the Children of Seth? and how were those words, v. 18. [Greek or Hebrew] (which they interpret, and Israel shall gather wealth, or substance) fulfilled? But we have sufficiently proved the Messiah to be a Spiritual Redeemer;