A53696:473
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.
§ 32 And this Testimony of their Targum, the present Jews are much to be pressed withal; and there are not many from which they feel their entanglements more urgent upon them. And it would at the same time, move compassion at their blindness, and indignation against their obstinacy, for any one seriously to consider how woefully they wrest the words up and down to make a tolerable application of them unto Hezekiah, whom they would fix this Prophecy upon; and on the occasion given us by the Targum, I shall take a little view of their sentiments on this place of the Prophet. That of old they esteemed a Prophecy of the Messiah, not only the Targum as we have seen, but the Talmud also doth acknowledge. Besides also they manifest the same conviction in their futilous Traditions. In Tractat. Saned. Distino. Cholech; They have a Tradition that God thought to have made Hezekiah to be the Messiah, and Sennacherib to have been Gog and Magog; but [Greek or Hebrew], the Property of Judgement interposed, and asked why David rather was not made the Messiah, who had made so many Songs to the praise of God. And Rabbi Hillel, as we shall see afterwards, contended, that Israel was not any more to look for a Messiah, seeing they enjoyed him in Hezekiah. Now these vain Traditions arose merely from the concessions of their old Masters, granting the Messiah to be here spoken of, and the craft of their later ones, wresting the words unto Hezekiah, so casting them into confusion, that they knew ⟨p. 107⟩not what to say, nor believe; But let us see how they acquit themselves at last in this matter.
§ 32 And this Testimony of their Targum, the present Jews are much to be pressed withal; and there are not many from which they feel their entanglements more urgent upon them. And it would at the same time, move compassion at their blindness, and indignation against their obstinacy, for any one seriously to consider how wofully they wrest the words up and down to make a tolerable application of them unto Hezekiah, whom they would fix this Prophesie upon; and on the occasion given us by the Targum, I shall take a little view of their sentiments on this place of the Prophet. That of old they esteemed a Prophesie of the Messiah, not only the Targum as we have seen, but the Talmud also doth acknowledge. Besides also they manifest the same conviction in their futilous Traditions. In Tractat. Saned. Distino. Cholech; They have a Tradition that God thought to have made Hezekiah to be the Messiah, and Senacherib to have been Gog and Magog; but , the Property of Judgement interposed, and asked why David rather was not made the Messiah, who had made so many Songs to the praise of God. And Rabbi Hillel, as we shall see afterwards, contended, that Israel was not any more to look for a Messiah, seeing they enjoyed him in Hezekiah. Now these vain Traditions arose meerly from the concessions of their old Masters, granting the Messiah to be here spoken of, and the craft of their later ones, wresting the words unto Hezekiah, so casting them into confusion, that they knew