A53696:454
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.
Psal. 2. v. 2. The Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed; § 19 His Messiah, as the Word should be left uninterpreted. Targum; [Greek or Hebrew] against his Messiah. The Talmudists in several places acknowledge this Psalm to be a Prophecy of the Messiah, and apply sundry Passages thereof unto him. And those words, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, are not amiss expounded by them in Tract. Succah. cap. 5. [Greek or Hebrew], I will this day reveal unto men that thou art my Son; for so are they applied by our Apostle dealing with the Jews, Acts 13. v. 33. Heb. 1. v. 5. namely, unto his Resurrection from the Dead, whereby he was declared to be the Son of God with Power; Rom. 1. v. 4. All the principal Expositors amongst them, as Rashi, Kimchi, Aben Ezra, Bartenora, or Rab. Obodia, acknowledge that their ancient Doctors and Masters expounded this Psalm concerning the Messiah. Themselves, some of them apply it unto David; and say it was composed by some of the singers concerning him, when he was anointed King, which the Philistines ⟨p. 102⟩hearing of, prepared to war against him, 2 Sam. 5.17. This is the conceit of Rashi; who therein is followed by sundry Christian Expositors, with no advantage to the Faith. And I presume they observed not the Reason he gives for his Exposition; Our Masters, saith he, of blessed memory, interpret this Psalm of the King Messiah; [Greek or Hebrew], but as the words sound, and to answer the Heretics, it is meet, or right to expound it of David. Those words [Greek or Hebrew], and that we may answer the Heretics, or Christians, are left out in the Venice and Basil Editions of his Comments, but were in the old Copies of them. And this is the plain Reason why they would apply this Psalm to David, of whom not one Verse of it can be truly and rightly expounded, as shall be manifested elsewhere; And it is a wise answer which they give in Midrash Tehillim unto that Testimony of v. 7. where Gods calls the Messiah his Son, to prove him to be the natural Son of God. [Greek or Hebrew]; And hence we may have an Answer for the Heretics, who say that the holy blessed God hath a Son. But do thou answer, he says not thou art a Son to me; but thou art my Son.