A53696:643
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 as this was eminently contained in the great fundamental Promise concerning the Messiah made to Abraham, namely, that in him all the Nations of the earth should be blessed: So there is not any description of him in the following Prophets more eminet then this, that unto him the gathering of the people should be, which in many places is made the Characteristical Note of his Person and Kingdom. Hence some of the Jews themselves interpret this place, as Rabbi Solomon by that of Isaiah, [Greek or Hebrew], to him shall Gentiles seek; and that of Chap. 42.4. [Greek or Hebrew]; the Isles shall wait for his Law. The sense also of the words given by the LXX. and that vulgar, [Greek or Hebrew], expectatio Gentium, have good countenance given unto it, in other places of Scripture. For as he is called, Hag. 2.7. [Greek or Hebrew], the desire of all Nations, that which they desire and expect; so speaking of himself, Isa. 60.9. he says, [Greek or Hebrew], the Isles, the same with [Greek or Hebrew], the Gentiles shall wait for me, or expect me. Now he to whom the Gentiles shall seek, whose Doctrine they shall learn, whose Law, they shall obey, to whom they shall be subject, in whom they shall be blessed, and to whom they shall be gathered, for all these ends, and purposes, is the true and only Messiah, and this is the Shiloh here mentioned.
Now as this was eminently contained in the great fundamental Promise concerning the Messiah made to Abraham, namely, that in him all the Nations of the earth should be blessed: So there is not any description of him in the following Prophets more eminet then this, that unto him the gathering of the people should be, which in many places is made the Characteristical Note of his Person and Kingdom. Hence some of the Jews themselves interpret this place, as Rabbi Solomon by that of Isaiah, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to him shall Gentiles seek; and that of Chap. 42.4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; the Isles shall wait for his Law. The sense also of the words given by the LXX. and that vulgar, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, expectatio Gentium, have good countenance given unto it, in other places of Scripture. For as he is called,