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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.
Abarbinel one of their great Masters, and Chief among them who invent pretences § 4 to their impenitences and unbelief, in his Comment on this place, after he hath endeavoured his utmost against the interpretations of the Christians, and made use of the reasonings of former Expositors, to apply the whole Prophecy unto the second House, at least as it was restored by Herod, at length refers all that is spoken of the House here, unto a third Temple prophesied as he fancieth, by Ezekiel, to be built in the days of the Messiah; because he saw, that if the second House was intended, it would be hard to avoid the coming of the Messiah, whilst that House stood and continued. But we need not insist long in the removal of this fond imagination. For (1.) It is contrary to express re-doubled affirmations in the Text before insisted on. (2.) To the whole design of the Context and Prophecy, which is expressly to encourage the Jews unto the building of that House, which seemed so contemptible in the eyes of some of them. (3.) To the repetition of this Prophecy, Mal. 3.1. where the second Temple is evidently expressed. (4.) To the Prophecy of Ezekiel, wherein a Spiritual and not a material Temple is delineated, as we shall elsewhere demonstrate. (5.) To the time assigned to the glorifying of the House spoken of; [Greek or Hebrew], yet a little while, which in no sense can be applied unto a Temple to be built longer afterwards then that Nation had been a people. From the Call of Abraham, to the giving of this Promise, there had passed about fourteen hundred and ten years; and it is now above two thousand years since this Prophecy; which in what sense it can be called, a little while is hard to imagine.
Abarbinel one of their great Masters, and Chief among them who invent pretences § 4 to their impenitences and unbelief, in his Comment on this place, after he hath endeavoured his utmost against the interpretations of the Christians, and made use of the reasonings of former Expositors, to apply the whole Prophecy unto the second House, at least as it was restored by Herod, at length refers all that is spoken of the House here, unto a third Temple prophesied as he fancieth, by Ezekiel, to be built in the dayes of the M•ssiah; because he saw, that if the second House was intended, it would be hard to avoid the coming of the Messiah, whilest that House stood and continued. But we need not insist long in the removall of this fond imagination. For (1.) It is contrary to express re-doubled affirmations in the Text before insisted on. (2.) To the whole design of the Context and Prophecy, which is expresly to encourage the Jews unto the building of that House, which seemed so contemptible in the eyes of some of them. (3.) To the repetition of this Prophecy,