A53696:529
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.
Exod. 19. v. 18, 19, 20. And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke; because the § 15 Lord descended upon it in Fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a Furnace, and the whole Mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the Trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice: And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the Mount. The Jews well interpret those words concerning the descent of God, to be by way of the manifestation of his Glory, not change of place. And thence Aben Ezra interprets that expression, Chap. 20. v. 22. Ye have seen that I have talked with you from Heaven; God was still in Heaven, when his Glory was on the Mount. Yet those words [Greek or Hebrew], do rather refer to his descent before described, then denote the place where he spake. For in giving the Law God spake on Earth, Heb, 12.25. That God in this glorious manifestation of his presence on Mount Sinai, made use of the ministry of Angels, both the nature of the thing declares, and the Scripture testifies, Psalm 68.17. The voices, fire, trembling of the Mountain, smoke and noise of the Trumpet, were all effected by them. And so also was the forming of the words of the Law conveyed unto the ears of Moses and the People. Hence the Law is not only said to be received by them, [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 7. v. 53. by the disposition, or orderly ministries of the Angels, and to be disposed by them into the hand of Moses, Gal. 3. v. 19. but is also called, [Greek or Hebrew], Heb. 2. v. 2. the word spoken or pronounced by Angels, that is outwardly and audibly. As to him that presided and ruled the whole action, some Christians think it was a created Angel, representing God, and speaking in his name. But if this be so, we have no certainty of any thing that is affirmed in the Scripture, that it may be referred directly and immediately unto God; but we may when we please substitute a delegated Angel in his room. For in no place, not in that concerning the Creation of the world is God himself more expressly spoken of. Besides, the Psalmist in the place mentioned, affirms that when those Chariots of God were on Mount Sinai, Jehovah himself was in the middest of them.