A53696:708
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.
Answer. This exception fixeth on one of the greatest difficulties in the Text, which yet is not such as to bear the weight of the Inference that is here made from it. For the Argument from the Division of the time in the Text, is of this importance: Because it is said, That from the going forth of the Decree to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two Weeks the Street shall be built again, and the Wall in troublous times; Therefore if the seven Weeks end not in the setting up of Zerubbabel, or Christ, they cannot be verified in the material State of Jerusalem after the Captivity. Now I see not the force of this Argument. For the words may have another Interpretation, and the separating of the seven Weeks from the LXII, as all of them from the LXX. before mentioned, excluding one out of the Distribution, may be to another end, then to denote, either the setting up of Zerubbabel, which assuredly they did not, or the coming of Christ, which they extend not unto. In brief, they do not precisely assert, that at the End of the Seven Weeks Messiah the Prince should be; for although they are distinguished from the other for some certain Purpose not expressed, as to the Determination of the time of the coming of the Messiah, they are to be joined with the sixty two Weeks, as is expressly affirmed in the following words. Now not to prevent my self in what is more largely afterwards to be insisted on, in the Exposition of the several passages of this Prophecy, after a full consideration of what sundry learned men have offered for the solving of this Difficulty, I shall here briefly propose my apprehensions concerning it, which I hope the Candid and Judicious Reader will find to answer the Conduct of the Context, and Design of the place.
Answer. This exception fixeth on one of the greatest difficulties in the Text, which yet is not such as to bear the weight of the Inference that is here made from it. For the Argument from the Division of the time in the Text, is of this importance: Because it is said, That from the going forth of the Decree to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two Weeks the Street shall be built again, and the Wall in troublous times; Therefore if the seven Weeks end not in the setting up of Zerubbabel, or Christ, they cannot be verified in the material State of Jerusalem after the Captivity. Now I see not the force of this Argument. For the words may have another Interpretation, and the separating of the seven Weeks from the LXII, as all of them from the LXX. before mentioned, excluding one out of the Distribution, may be to another end, then to denote, either the setting up of Zerubbabel, which assuredly they did not, or the coming of Christ, which they extend not unto. In brief, they do not precisely assert, that at the End of the Seven Weeks Messiah the Prince should be; for although they are distinguished from the other for some certain Purpose not expressed, as to the Determination of the time of the coming of the Mssiah, they are to be joyned with the sixty two Weeks, as is expresly affirmed in the following words. Now not to prevent my self in what is more largely afterwards to be insisted on, in the Exposition of the several passages of this Prophecy, after a full consideration of what sundry learned men have offered for the solving of this Difficulty, I shall here briefly propose my apprehensions concerning it, which I hope the Candid and Judicious Reader will find to answer the Conduct of the Context, and Design of the place.