A53696:686
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.
§ 24 The last circumstance contributing light unto our interpretation of this place, is taken from the event, or the coming of the desire of all Nations, and the glory of the second House ensuing thereon, in these words; [Greek or Hebrew]; and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts. From these words Abarbinel seeks to overthrow our Exposition, by this place, saith he, is intended Jerusalem. Well let that be granted, what will thence ensue? Why saith he, [Greek or Hebrew]; Behold from the day that the Messiah was born, there was no Peace in Jerusalem, but Wars, Destruction, and Desolation. We say then, that by Peace, here, must be understood either outward, Temporal, Worldly Peace, or Spiritual Peace between God and man, between Jews and Gentiles in their joint communion in the same Worship of God. If they say the former was intended, I desire to know when this promise was accomplished under the second Temple? before ⟨p. 165⟩days of the Hasmoneans, the whole people was in perfect bondage and slavery: First, To the Persians, then to the Graecians; and bondage is not, especially peace in the Hebrew Dialect, wherein, that word denotes an affluence of all good things. The Rule of the Hasmoneans was wholly spent in bloody Wars, and intestine Divisions. Their power issued in the Dominion of the Romans, and their Vassals the Herodians? What signal peace they had in those days, they may learn from their own Joseph Ben Gorion. To say then, that this was the peace intended, is to say directly, that that God promised what he never performed, which is fit only for these men to do.
§ 24 The last circumstance contributing light unto our interpretation of this place, is taken from the event, or the coming of the desire of all Nations, and the glory of the second House ensuing thereon, in these words; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts. From these words Abarbinel seeks to overthrow our Exposition, by this place, saith he, is intended Jerusalem. Well let that be granted, what will thence ensue? Why saith he, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Behold from the day that the Messiah was born, there was no Peace in Jerusalem, but Wars, Destruction, and Desolation. We say then, that by Peace, here, must be understood either outward, Temporal, Worldly Peace, or Spiritual Peace between God and man, between Jews and Gentiles in their joint communion in the same Worship of God. If they say the former was intended, I desire to know when this promise was accomplished under the second Temple? before