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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.
Outward force and Opposition then they were delivered from, in the second year of Darius Hystiages. But their discouragements from their poverty and disability still continued. This the Prophet intimates, v. 4. Who is there left among you, who saw this House in its first glory, and what do you now see it? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? There is no necessity of reading the words with a supposition; As Scaliger contends, if there were any amongst you who had seen. For it is much more likely, that some who had seen the former House of Solomon, and wept at the laying of the foundation of this in the days of Cyrus, should now see the carrying of it on in the second year of Darius Hystiages, that is about ten or twelve years after, then that those who began the work in the Reign of Cyrus, should live to perfect it in the second year of Darius Nothus an hundred years after. However it is evident that the old discouragement was still pressing upon them. The former House was Glorious and Magnificent, Famous and Renowned in the world: and full of comfort unto them, from the visible pledges of the presence of God that were therein. To remove this discouragement, and to support them under it, the Lord by this Prophet makes them a Promise, that whatever the straightness and poverty of the house were which they undertook to build: however short it came of the glory of that of old, yet from what he himself would do, he would render that House far more glorious then the former; namely, by doing that in it, for which both it and the former were instituted and erected. Saith he, [Greek or Hebrew], The glory of this latter house, shall be great above that of the former. To clear our Argument intended from these words we must consider (1.) What was this latter House we spoke of: (2.) Wherein the Glory of it did consist.
Outward force and Opposition then they were delivered from, in the second year of Darius Hystiages. But their discouragements from their poverty and disability still continued. This the Prophet intimates, v. 4. Who is there left among you, who saw this House in its first glory, and what do you now see it? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? There is no necessity of reading the words with a supposition; As Scaliger contends, if there were any amongst you who had seen. For it is much more likely, that some who had seen the former House of Solomon, and wept at the laying of the foundation of this in the dayes of Cyrus, should now see the carrying of it on in the second year of Darius Hystiages, that is about ten or twelve years after, then that those who began the work in the Reign of Cyrus, should live to perfect it in the second year of Darius Nothus an hundred years after. However it is evident that the old discouragement was still pressing upon them. The former House was Glorious and Magnificent, Famous and Renowned in the world: and full of comfort unto them, from the visible pledges of the presence of God that were therein. To remove this discouragement, and to support them under it, the Lord by this Prophet makes them a Promise, that whatever the streightness and poverty of the house were which they undertook to build: however short it came of the glory of that of old, yet from what he himself would do, he would render that House far more glorious then the former; namely, by doing that in it, for which both it and the former were instituted and erected. Saith he, , The glory of this latter house, shall be great above that of the former. To clear our Argument intended from these words we must consider (1.) What was this latter House we spoke of: (2.) Wherein the Glory of it did consist.