A53696:610
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.
Although the phrase of speech seems to incline to another sense, but about this we will not differ with him.
Although the phrase of speech seems to encline to another sense, but about this we will not differ with him.
§ 7 He next proceeds to the interpretation of the word Shiloh, which before he applied unto David; and to show the uncertainty and wanderings of all them who reject the true and only intendment of the Holy Ghost in this expression, he gives us the various opinions of his Masters, not knowing, himself what to adhere unto. [Greek or Hebrew]; some, he says, there are who interpret it from the Syriac, as it were as much, as [Greek or Hebrew] unto him, or cujus omnia. But this yields him no advantage. Sundry learned men suspect some such sense in the word, or derivation of it; [Greek or Hebrew] being put for [Greek or Hebrew]; and the Translation of the LXX. reading [Greek or Hebrew], seems to have had respect thereunto. But then the Messiah is signally denoted, whose the Kingdom was; whom the Promises especially respected, and to whom the gathering of the people was to be. Some, he adds, derive it from [Greek or Hebrew], which signifies the Embryo in the Womb; and in allusion hereunto many interpret the word his Son; from [Greek or Hebrew], which is as much as [Greek or Hebrew], from [Greek or Hebrew] the second Birth, or certain Membranes of the Womb: and he adds afterwards, that [Greek or Hebrew], may be as much as [Greek or Hebrew] being put for [Greek or Hebrew]. But yet neither can he hence obtain any thing towards his design. Wherefore, he proceeds, some expound it of the City Shiloh, and then they interpret [Greek or Hebrew] shall come, [Greek or Hebrew], as that, the Sun cometh; that is, sets, or goes down, Eccles. 4. that is, [Greek or Hebrew] until the end of Shiloh come; for so it is written, he rejected the Tabernacle at Shiloh; and chose David his servant. But it is evident unto all who use the least attention unto these things, how forced, indeed foolish this Exposition is: until Shiloh come; that is, until the City Shiloh be deserted, or forsaken, or destroyed, so ⟨p. 145⟩