A53696:709
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.
First, I fix it here as unquestionable, that the whole space of Seventy Weeks doth § 7 precisely contain the time, between the going forth of the Decree, and the Unction of the Most Holy, with his Passion that ensued, some few years of the last Week remaining, not reckoned on to keep the Computation entire by weeks of years. This is so expressly affirmed, v. 24. that the Interpretation of all that ensues is to be regulated thereby. And this, as we shall afterwards prove, so here we take it for granted, as the Hypothesis on which the present difficulty is to be solved. There is then a Distribution of these LXX. Weeks into VII, LXII. and One; upon the account of some remarkable events, happening at the distinct expiration of those several parcels of the whole season, v. 25. We have two portions of this time expressed; namely VII. Weeks, and LXII Weeks, and two Events attending them, Messiah the Prince, and the building of the Street and Wall. From the going forth of the Decree to restore and 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. The two Events here mentioned did ensue the two distinct parcels of time limited, but not in the Order which the words at first view seem to represent, as is evident from the Context. For as the Messiah did not come at the Expiration of the VII. Weeks, so the LXII. Weeks were not expired before the building of the City; nor is that mentioned as the Event designed by the whole space of LXIX. Weeks, but as that which should fall out in some interval of it; for the Prophecy issues not in the Restoration, but Desolation of the City.
First, I fix it here as unquestionable, that the whole space of Seventy Weeks doth § 7 precisely contain the time, between the going forth of the Decree, and the Ʋnction of the Most Holy, with his Passion that ensued, some few years of the last Week remaining, not reckoned on to keep the Computation entire by weeks of years. This is so expresly affirmed, v. 24. that the Interpretation of all that ensues is to be regulated thereby. And this, as we shall afterwards prove, so here we take it for granted, as the Hypothesis on which the present difficulty is to be solved. There is then a Distribution of these LXX. Weeks into VII, LXII. and One; upon the account of some remarkable events, happening at the distinct expiration of those several parcels of the whole season, v. 25. We have two portions of this time expressed; namely VII. Weeks, and LXII Weeks, and two Events attending them, Messiah the Prince, and the building of the Street and Wall. From the going forth of the Decree to restore and 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. The two Events here mentioned did ensue the two distinct parcels of time limited, but not in the Order which the words at first view seem to represent, as is evident from the Context. For as the Messiah did not come at the Expiration of the VII. Weeks, so the LXII. Weeks were not expired before the building of the City; nor is that mentioned as the Event designed by the whole space of LXIX. Weeks, but as that which should fall out in some interval of it; for the Prophecy issues not in the Restauration, but Desolation of the City.