A53696:705
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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§ 5 It is added therefore Secondly, If the restoration of the City, v. 25. is of the material Jerusalem after Nebuchadnezzars Captivity, it must begin in the first year of Cyrus, from which time seventy weeks of years, will fully expire long before the Birth of Christ.
§ 5 It is added therefore Secondly, If the restauration of the City, v. 25. is of the material Jerusalem after Nebuchadnezzars Captivity, it must begin in the first year of Cyrus, from which time seventy weeks of years, will fully expire long before the Birth of Christ.
Answer. There are sundry Learned Men who despair not to make good the computation from the first of Cyrus, whose Arguments it will not be so easy to overthrow, as to make their failure in Chronology, to be the foundation of so great an inference, as that here proposed, namely, that the coming of the Messiah is not intended in this Prophecy. But we shall afterwards prove, that there is not only no necessity, that the Decree mentioned for the Restoration of Jerusalem, v. 25. should be thought to be that made in the first year of Cyrus, that indeed it is impossible that any such Decree should be intended: seeing no such was made by him, but only one about the re-edifying of the Temple, which here is no respect unto. Another Decree therefore express to what the Angel here affirmeth, we shall discover, from whence unto the sufferings of Christ, the seventy Weeks are an exact measure of time.
Answer. There are sundry Learned Men who despair not to make good the computation from the first of Cyrus, whose Arguments it will not be so easie to overthrow, as to make their failure in Chronologie, to be the foundation of so great an inference, as that here proposed, namely, that the coming of the Messiah is not intended in this Prophecy. But we shall afterwards prove, that there is not only no necessity, that the Decree mentioned for the Restauration of Jerusalem, v. 25. should be thought to be that made in the first year of Cyrus, that indeed it is impossible that any such Decree should be intended: seeing no such was made by him, but only one about the re-edifying of the Temple, which here is no respect unto. Another Decree therefore express to what the Angel here affirmeth, we shall discover, from whence unto the sufferings of Christ, the seventy Weeks are an exact measure of time.