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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.
§ 3 First, We are to enquire what House it is whereof the Prophet speaks, now this is most evident in the Context. This House, saith he, v. 4. that your eyes look upon, and which you so much despise in comparison of the former. And v. 8. I will fill, saith the Lord, [Greek or Hebrew], this House which you are now finishing, with glory. And v. 9. it is called [Greek or Hebrew], this latter House. The Prophet doth as it were, point to it with his finger. This House that you and I are looking upon, this House which is so contemptible in your eyes, in comparison with that of Solomon which you have either seen or read of, this House shall be filled with glory. It is true, this Temple was three hundred years after re-edified by Herod in the eighteenth year of his Reign; which yet hindered not, but that it was still the same Temple. For this first Structure was never destroyed, nor the materials of it at once taken down. But notwithstanding the reparation of it by Herod, it still continued the one and the same House, though much enlarged and beautified by him. And therefore the Jews in the days of our Saviour, overlooked as it were the re-edification of the Temple by Herod, and affirm, that that House which then stood, was forty six years in building, John 2.20. as they supposed it to have been upon the first return from Captivity; when the whole work and building of Herod was finished within the space of eight years. The Targum also of Jonathan, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi and others interpret the words of that House which was then building by Zerubbabel and Joshua, nor do any of the Ancient Jews dissent.
§ 3 First, We are to enquire what House it is whereof the Prophet speaks, now this is most evident in the Context. This House, saith he, v. 4. that your eyes look upon, and which you so much despise in comparison of the former. And v. 8. I will fill, saith the Lord, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this House which you are now finishing, with glory. And v. 9. it is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this latter House. The Prophet doth as it were, point to it with his finger. This House that you and I are looking upon, this House which is so contemptible in your eyes, in comparison with that of Solomon which you have either seen or read of, this House shall be filled with glory. It is true, this Temple was three hundred years after re-edified by Herod in the eighteenth year of his Reign; which yet hindered not, but that it was still the same Temple. For this first Structure was never destroyed, nor the materials of it at once taken down. But notwithstanding the reparation of it by Herod, it still continued the one and the same House, though much enlarged and beautified by him. And therefore the Jews in the dayes of our Saviour, overlooked as it were the re-edification of the Temple by Herod, and affirm, that that House which then stood, was forty six years in building,