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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.
They call him the Son of Jesse from this place; which makes it somewhat observable that some Christians, as Grotius, should apply it unto Hezekiah, Judaizing in their interpretations beyond the Jews. Only the Jews are not well agreed in what sense those words, the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard shall lye down with the Kid, &c. are to be understood. Some would have it, that the nature of the brute Beasts shall be changed in the days of the Messiah; but this is rejected by the wisest of them, as Maimonides, Kimchi, Aben Ezra and others; and these interpret the words [Greek or Hebrew], allegorically, applying them unto that Universal Peace which shall be in the world in the days of the Messiah. But the Peace they fancy, is far from answering the words of the Prophecy, which express a change in the nature of the worst of men, by virtue of the Rule and Grace of the Messiah. I cannot but add that Abarbinel writing his Commentaries about the time that the European Christian Nations were fighting with the Saracens for the Land of Palestine, or the Holy Land, he interprets the latter end of the tenth Chapter, to the destruction of them on both sides by God, whereon their Messiah should be revealed, as is promised in this, which he expresseth in the close of his Exposition of the first Verse of Chap. 11. [Greek or Hebrew]; And there shall prevail great War between the Nations of the world, one against another, on, or for the Holy Land, and strong Nations shall fall in it by the sword of one another, and therefore it is said, behold the Lord, the Lord of Host shall lop. Chap. 10. v. 33. And a little after, he adds, [Greek or Hebrew]; in the middest of that War shall Messiah the King be revealed; For those Nations he would have had to be Gog and Magog; and in many places doth he express his hopes of the ruin of the Christians by that War; but the issue hath disappointed his hopes and desires.
They call him the Son of Jesse from this place; which makes it somewhat observable that some Christians, as Grotius, should apply it unto Hezekiah, Judaizing in their interpretations beyond the Jews. Only the Jews are not well agreed in what sense those words, the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard shall lye down with the Kid, &c. are to be understood. Some would have it, that the nature of the brute Beasts shall be changed in the dayes of the Messiah; but this is rejected by the wisest of them, as Maimonides, Kimchi, Aben Ezra and others; and these interpret the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, allegorically, applying them unto that Ʋniversal Peace which shall be in the world in the dayes of the Messiah. But the Peace they fancy, is far from answering the words of the Prophesie, which express a change in the nature of the worst of men, by vertue of the Rule and Grace of the Messiah. I cannot but add that Abarbinel writing his Commentaries about the time that the Europaean Christian Nations were fighting with the Saracens for the Land of Palestine, or the Holy Land, he interprets the latter end of the tenth Chapter, to the destruction of them on both sides by God, whereon their Messiah should be revealed, as is promised in this, which he expresseth in the close of his Exposition of the first Verse of Chap. 11. ; And there shall prevail great War between the Nations of the world, one against another, on, or for the Holy Land, and strong Nations shall fall in it by the sword of one another, and therefore it is said, behold the Lord, the Lord of Host shall lop. Chap. 10. v. 33. And a little after, he adds, ; in the middest of that War shall Messiah the King be revealed; For those Nations he would have had to be Gog and Magog; and in many places doth he express his hopes of the ruine of the Christians by that War; but the issue hath disappointed his hopes and desires.