A53696:614
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.
Now that the Tribe of Judah and not his person, but only as from him the whole received its denomination, and as he is included therein is intended in this Prophecy, is evident. For (1.) The things mentioned in this great Patriarchal Benediction were such, as should befall the Posterity of his Children, to whom he spake [Greek or Hebrew] in the latter days; or in the end of the days, as were all the blessings of them that went before Jacob also. Now that expression in general signally denotes the times of Messiah, as we shall afterwards declare, and as hath in part already been made manifest. And as it relates in particular unto any of the Tribes, it denotes the whole continuance of their times until that season should be accomplished. So that it cannot be restrained unto the persons of any of them. (2.) Nothing that is spoken of any of the rest of the Sons of Jacob, belonged unto them personally, no though it had its foundation in their persons, or in an allusion unto their personal Actings. Thus the dividing of Simeon and Levi in Jacob, and the scattering of them in Israel, belonged not unto their persons, though what befell their posterity of that nature, had a special eye unto their personal miscarriage, v. 5, 6, 7. Neither was any thing here spoken of Judah in any measure fulfilled in his person, who spent his days in Egypt, without any pre-eminence among his Brethren, or Rule with Conquest, and terror like a Lion over others. It is then the Family, Tribe, or Posterity of Judah that by that name is here intended.
Now that the Tribe of Judah and not his person, but only as from him the whole received its denomination, and as he is included therein is intended in this Prophesie, is evident. For (1.) The things mentioned in this great Patriarchal Benediction were such, as should befall the Posterity of his Children, to whom he spake 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the latter dayes; or in the end of the dayes, as were all the blessings of them that went before Jacob also. Now that expression in general signally denotes the times of Messsiah, as we shall afterwards declare, and as hath in part already been made manifest. And as it relates in particular unto any of the Tribes, it denotes the whole continuance of their times untill that season should be accomplished. So that it cannot be restrained unto the persons of any of them. (2.) Nothing that is spoken of any of the rest of the Sons of Jacob, belonged unto them personally, no though it had its foundation in their persons, or in an allusion unto their personal Actings. Thus the dividing of Simeon and Levi in Jacob, and the scattering of them in Israel, belonged not unto their persons, though what befell their posterity of that nature, had a special eye unto their personal miscarriage, v. 5, 6, 7. Neither was any thing here spoken of Judah in any measure fulfilled in his person, who spent his dayes in Aegypt, without any pre-eminence among his Brethren, or Rule with Conquest, and terror like a Lion over others. It is then the Family, Tribe, or Posterity of Judah that by that name is here intended.