A53696:664
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
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§ 9 Thirdly, It appears farther from the number of Workmen employed in the Structure. We need not greaten this number out of conjectures with Villalpandus, who reckons above four hundred thousand; seeing there is evident mention in the Scripture of an hundred and fourscore and three thousand and six hundred. Besides the Tyrians that were hired, who by their Wages seem also to have been a great number, 2 Chron. 2.10. That is, there was an hundred and fifty three thousand and six hundred strangers of the posterity of the Canaanites; 2 Chron. 2.17, 18. and thirty thousand Israelites, 1 Kings 5.13. Neither was all this multitude engaged in this work for a few days or months, but full seven years, 1 Kings 6.38. And therein, as Josephus observes, the speed of the work was almost as admirable as its magnificence. And what a glorious Structure might be raised by such numbers of men, in such a space of time, when nothing was wanting unto them, which by the immense Treasures before mentioned, could be procured, may easily be conceived. It doth not appear that the whole number of the people, rich and poor, who were gathered together under Zerubbabel after the return from the Captivity, did equal the numbers of Solomons Builders; so that they were not like to erect a Fabric, answerable unto what he effected: nor can it be imagined, that Herod employed so many in the whole work, as Solomon had to oversee his Labourers.
§ 9 Thirdly, It appears farther from the number of Workmen employed in the Structure. We need not greaten this number out of conjectures with Villalpandus, who reckons above four hundred thousand; seeing there is evident mention in the Scripture of an hundred and fourscoure and three thousand and six hundred. Besides the Tyrians that were hired, who by their Wages seem also to have been a great number, 2 Chron. 2.10. That is, there was an hundred and fifty three thousand and six hundred strangers of the posterity of the Canaanites; 2 Chron. 2.17, 18. and thirty thousand Israelites,