A53696:464
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
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§ 27 In the Targum on the Canticles there is frequent mention also of the Messiah; as Chap. 1. v. 8. Chap. 4. v. 5. Chap. 7. v. 14. Chap. 8. v. 1, 2, 3, 4. But because the Jews are utterly ignorant of the true Spiritual sense of that Divine Song, and the Targum of it, is a confused Miscellany of things sufficiently heterogeneous, being a much later endeavour than the most of those on the other Books, I shall not particularly insist on the places cited, but content my self with directing the Reader unto them. The like also may be said of Eccles. Chap. 1. v. 11. Chap. 7. v. 25. where without any occasion from the Text, the mention of him is importunely inculcated by the Targumists.
§ 27 In the Targum on the Canticles there is frequent mention also of the M•ssiah; as Chap. 1. v. 8. Chap. 4. v. 5. Chap. 7. v. 14. Chap. 8. v. 1, 2, 3, 4. But because the Jews are utterly ignorant of the true Spiritual sense of that Divine Song, and the Targum of it, is a confused Miscellany of things sufficiently heterogeneous, being a much later endeavour than the most of those on the other Books, I shall not particularly insist on the places cited, but content my self with directing the Reader unto them. The like also may be said of Eccles. Chap. 1. v. 11. Chap. 7. v. 25. where without any occasion from the Text, the mention of him is importunely inculcated by the Targumists.
§ 28 We are now entering on the Prophets, the Principal Work of some whereof, was to testify before hand the sufferings of Christ, and the Glory that was to follow, 1 Pet. 1. v. 11. And therefore I do not at all design to gather up in our passage all that is foretold, promised, declared and taught concerning him in them, (a work right worthy of more peace, leisure and ability than what in any kind I am entrusted withal) but only to report some of the most eminent places, concerning which we have the common suffrage of the Jews in their general Application unto the Messiah. Among these, that of Isaiah, Chap. 2. v. 2, 3, 4. occurreth in the first place. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the Mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the Mountains, and shall be exalted in the top of the Hills, and all Nations shall flow unto it: and many people shall go and say, come ye, and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord, to the House of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his Paths: For out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the Nations, and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat their Swords into Plough-shares.