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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.
Abarbinel seems to have been aware of this entanglement, and therefore as he wrests the Prophecy, (by his own confession contrary to the sense of all other Expositors) unto the times of the building of the Second Temple; so because he could not avoid the conviction of one that should judge among the Nations, he makes it to be the House it self, wherein as he says, Thrones for Judgement were to be erected; the vanity of which figment secures it from any further confutation. We have then evidently in these words three Articles of the Faith of the Ancient Church concerning the Messiah; as First, That as to his Person, he should be God and man; the God of Jacob, who should in a bodily presence judge the People, and send forth the Law among the Nations, v. 4. Secondly, That the Gentiles should be called unto faith in him, and the Obedience of his Law, v. 3. Thirdly, That the Worship of the Lord in the days of the Messiah should be far more glorious than at any time whilst the first Temple was standing, for so it is foretold, v. 2. and so our Apostle proves it to be, in his Epistle to the Hebrews. And this whole Prophecy is not a little perverted by them, who apply it to the defeat of Resin and Pekah when they came against Jerusalem, and who in their Annotations on the Scripture, whereby they have won to themselves a great Reputation in the world, seldom depart from the sense of the Jews, unless it be where they are in the Right.
Abarbinel seems to have been aware of this entanglement, and therefore as he wrests the Prophesie, (by his own confession contrary to the sense of all other Expositors) unto the times of the building of the Second Temple; so because he could not avoid the conviction of one that should judge among the Nations, he makes it to be the House it self, wherein as he sayes, Thrones for Judgement were to be erected; the vanity of which figment secures it from any further confutation. We have then evidently in these words three Articles of the Faith of the Antient Church concerning the Messiah; as First, That as to his Person, he should be God and man; the God of Jacob, who should in a bodily presence judge the People, and send forth the Law among the Nations, v. 4. Secondly, That the Gentiles should be called unto faith in him, and the Obedience of his Law, v. 3. Thirdly, That the Worship of the Lord in the dayes of the Messiah should be far more glorious than at any time whilest the first Temple was standing, for so it is foretold, v. 2. and so our Apostle proves it to be, in his Epistle to the Hebrews. And this whole Prophesie is not a little perverted by them, who apply it to the defeat of Resin and Pekah when they came against Jerusalem, and who in their Annotations on the Scripture, whereby they have won to themselves a great Reputation in the world, seldom depart from the sense of the Jews, unless it be where they are in the Right.