A53696:556
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.
In this condition some of them began to deny that there was any Messiah to be expected § 8 or looked for. This opinion is ascribed in the Talmud unto Rabbi Hillel. lib. Sand. C•p. Chelek. This was not that Hillel whom they call [Greek or Hebrew] the Elder, the famous Master of Traditions, who with Shammai lived under the second Temple, but another of whom some say that he was the Son of Gamaliel, others more probably that he lived a long time after those days. But when ever he lived they say of him, [Greek or Hebrew], Rabbi Hillel said, A Messiah shall not be given unto Israel, for they enjoyed him in the days of Hezekiah, This was a fruit of their applying that Prophecy of Isaiah, Chap. 9. v. 5, 6. unto Hezekiah; for if he was intended therein, he was unquestionably the only Messiah. But it doth not appear that this opinion was much followed; for a great dispute arose amongst them whither Hillel were not to be esteemed an Apostate, and to have lost his interest in the world to come by this Opinion. Those who following Maimonides, make the Article of the coming of the Messiah one of the Fundamentals of the Law, are greatly offended at him; but he is more gently treated by Joseph Albo, Sepher Ikkarim, Orat. 1. on the account that this Article is not fundamental, but only one branch of the great Root of Reward; and Punishments. Abarbinel goes another way to excuse him, but generally they all condemn his Opinion. In this Persuasion then, that a Messiah is promised and shall come, they all continue. But whereas, as was before observed, they have utterly rejected the Faith and Light of the Church of old, they have in their Talmuds, and Ages ensuing their Composition, coined so many foolish imaginations concerning Him, his Person, Work, Office, Kingdom, Life, Continuance, and Succession, as are endless to recount.
In this condition some of them began to deny that there was any Messiah to be expected § 8 or looked for. This opinion is ascribed in the Talmud unto Rabbi Hillel. lib. Sand. C•p. Chelek. This was not that Hil•el whom they call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Elder, the famous Master of Traditions, who with Shammai lived under the second Temple, but another of whom some say that he was the Son of Gamaliel, others more probably that he lived a long time after those dayes. But when ever he lived they say of him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rabbi Hillel said, A Messiah shall not be given unto Israel, for they enjoyed him in the dayes of Hezekiah, This was a fruit of their applying that Prophesie of Isaiah, Chap. 9. v. 5, 6. unto Hezekiah; for if he was intended therein, he was unquestionably the only Messiah. But it doth not appear that this opinion was much followed; for a great dispute arose amongst them whither Hillel were not to be esteemed an Apostate, and to have lost his interest in the world to come by this Opinion. Those who following Maimonides, make the Article of the coming of the Messiah one of the Fundamentals of the Law, are greatly offended at him; but he is more gently treated by Joseph Albo, Sepher Ikkarim, Orat. 1. on the account that this Article is not fundamental, but only one branch of the great Root of Reward; and Punishments. Abarbinel goes another way to excuse him, but generally they all condemn his Opinion. In this Perswasion then, that a Messiah is promised and shall come, they all continue. But whereas, as was before observed, they have utterly rejected the Faith and Light of the Church of old, they have in their Talmuds, and Ages ensuing their Composition, coyned so many foolish imaginations concerning Him, his Person, Work, Office, Kingdom, Life, Continuance, and Succession, as are endless to recount.