A53696:514
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.
The Jews discern that [Greek or Hebrew] walking, relates in this place immediately to [Greek or Hebrew], § 3 the voice, and not unto [Greek or Hebrew], the Lord God, and therefore endeavour to render a Reason of that kind of Expression. So Aben Ezra on the place giveth instances where a voice or sound in its Progress is said to walk. As Exod. 19. v. 19. [Greek or Hebrew]; the voice of the Trumpet went and waxed strong; and Jer. 46. v. 22. [Greek or Hebrew]; the voice thereof shall go like a Serpent. But these Examples reach not that under consideration. For although [Greek or Hebrew] may express sometimes the Progression or increase of a Voice, yet it doth not so, but where it is intimated to be begun before; but here was nothing spoken by God, until after that Adam had heard this Word of God walking. And therefore R. Jona cited by Aben Ezra would apply [Greek or Hebrew] walking, unto Adam; He heard the voice of God, as he was himself walking in the Garden, the absurdity of which Fiction the Words of the Text and Context sufficiently evince. For not [Greek or Hebrew] but [Greek or Hebrew] would answer unto [Greek or Hebrew] in the beginning of the Verse. It is therefore most probable that in the great alteration which was now coming upon the whole Creation of God, mankind being to be cast out of Covenant, the Serpent and the Earth being to be Cursed, and a way of Recovery ⟨p. 116⟩for the Elect of God to be revealed, that He, by whom all things were made, and by whom all were to be renewed that were to be brought again unto God, did in an especial and glorious manner appear unto our first Parents, as he in whom this whole dispensation centered, and unto whom it was committed. And as after the Promise given He appeared [Greek or Hebrew], in an humane shape, to instruct the Church in the Mystery of his future Incarnation, and under the Name of Angel, to shadow out his Office as sent unto it, and employed in it by the Father, so here before the Promise, he discovered his distinct glorious Person, as the eternal Voice or Word of the Father.
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