A53696:512
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.
where the words of the Prophet, I will save them by the Lord their God, are rendered by the Targumist, [Greek or Hebrew], I will save, (or redeem) them, by the Word of the Lord their God. The Word, the Redeemer. And it is not unworthy consideration, that as the Wisest and most contemplative of the Philosophers of old, had many notions about the [Greek or Hebrew], the eternal Word, which was unto them [Greek or Hebrew], the formative or creative Power of the Universe, to which purpose many sayings have been observed, and might be reported out of Plato, with his followers, Amelius, Chalcidius, Proclus, Plotinus and others, whose expressions are imitated by our own Writers, as Justin Martyr, Clemens, Athenagoras, Tatianus, and many more, so among the Mahometans themselves, this is the the name that in their Alcoran they give unto Jesus, [Greek or Hebrew], the Word of God; So prevalent hath this notion of the Son of God, been in the World. And as those words, Ezek. 1. v. 24. I heard the voice of their wings, [Greek or Hebrew], as the Voice of the Almighty, are rendered by the Targumist, [Greek or Hebrew], as the Voice from the face of the Almighty, which what it is, shall be afterwards shown, so some Copies of the LXX. read them by [Greek or Hebrew], the Voice of the WORD, that is of God, who was represented in that Vision, as shall be manifested.
where the words of the Prophet, I will save them by the Lord their God, are rendered by the Targumist, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I will save, (or redeem) them, by the Word of the Lord their God. The Word, the Redeemer. And it is not unworthy consideration, that as the Wisest and most contemplative of the Philosophers of old, had many notions about the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the eternal Word, which was unto them 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the formative or creative Power of the Ʋniverse, to which purpose many sayings have been observed, and might be reported out of Plato, with his followers, Amelius, Chalcidius, Proclus, Plotinus and others, whose expressions are imitated by our own Writers, as Justin Martyr, Clemens, Athenagoras, Tatianus, and many more, so among the Mahumetans themselves, this is the the name that in their Alcoran they give unto Jesus, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Word of God; So prevalent hath this notion of the Son of God, been in the World. And as those words,