A53696:511
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.
So doth Philo express their sense, de Confusione Linguarum, [Greek or Hebrew]. If any be not yet worthy to be called the Son of God, yet endeavour thou to be conformed unto his first begotten Word; the m•st ancient Angel, the Archangel with many names; for he is called the Beginning, the name of God, the man according to the image of God, the S•er of Israel. How suitably these things are spoken unto the Mysteries revealed in the Gospel shall elsewhere be declared. Here I only observe how he calls that Angel which appeared unto the Fathers, and that sometimes in humane shape, the Word, the FIRST BEGOTTEN WORD. And he expresseth himself again to the same purpose. [Greek or Hebrew]. For if we are not yet meet to be called the Sons of God, let us be so of his eternal image, the most Sacred Word, for that most ancient Word is the image of God. How these things answer the Discourses of our Apostle about Jesus Christ, Col. 1. v. 15, 16, 17, 18. Heb. 1. v. 3. is easily discerned. And this conception of theirs, was so far approved by the Holy Ghost, as suitable unto the mind of God, that John in the Beginning of his Gospel declaring the Eternal Deity ⟨p. 115⟩of Christ doth it under this name of [Greek or Hebrew], the Word, that is [Greek or Hebrew]; the Word of God; the Word that was with God, and that was God, John 1.1. For as he alludeth therein to the story of the first Creation, wherein God is described as making all things by his word, for he said of every thing, let it be, and it was made, as the Psalmist expresseth it, He spake and it was done, he commanded and it stood fa•t, Psal. 33. v. 9. which he fully declares, v. 6. By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made, and all the Host of them by the breath of his Mouth; in answer whereunto, he teacheth that all things were made by this Word of God, whereof he speaks, v. 3. which in the Chaldee is elsewhere also assigned unto this Word, where mention is not made of it in the Original; as