A53696:770
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.
§ 39 Abarbinel, and after him Manasse Ben Israel with some others of them fix on Agrippa ⟨p. 183⟩the last King of the Jews, who, as they say with his son Monabasius was cut off or slain at Rome by Vespasian. A learned man in his Apparatus ad Origines Ecclesiasticas, mistakes this Agrippa for Herod Agrippa, who was [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 12. But he who dyed long before the destruction of the City is not intended by them, but the younger Agrippa the Brother and Husband of Berenice. Neither is there any colour of probability in this Fancy. For neither was that Agrippa properly ever King of the Jews, having only Galilee under his Jurisdiction, nor was he ever anointed to be their King, nor designed of God unto any work on the account whereof he might be called his Anointed, nor was he of the posterity of Israel, nor did by any thing deserve an illustrious mention in this Prophecy. Besides in the last fatal War, he was still of the Roman side and party, nor was he cut off or slain by Vespasian, but after the War lived at Rome in honour, and dyed in peace. Yea, he did not only out-live Vespasian, but Titus and Domitian his Sons also, and continued unto the third year of Trajan, as Justus the Tiberian assures us in his History, whose words are reported by Photius in his Bibliotheca. So that [Greek or Hebrew], there is nothing of Truth, no colour of probability in this desperate figment.
§ 39 Abarbinel, and after him Manasse Ben Israel with some others of them fix on Agrippa ⟨p. 183⟩the last King of the Jews, who, as they say with his son Monabasius was cut off or slaine at Rome by Vespasian. A learned man in his Apparatus ad Origines Ecclesiasticas, mistakes this Agrippa for Herod Agrippa, who was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Acts 12. But he who dyed long before the destruction of the City is not intended by them, but the younger Agrippa the Brother and Husband of Berenice. Neither is there any colour of probability in this Fancy. For neither was that Agrippa properly ever King of the Jews, having only Galilee under his Jurisdiction, nor was he ever annointed to be their King, nor designed of God unto any work on the account whereof he might be called his Annointed, nor was he of the posterity of Israel, nor did by any thing deserve an illustrious mention in this Prophecy. Besides in the last fatal War, he was still of the Roman side and party, nor was he cut off or slain by Vespasian, but after the War lived at Rome in honour, and dyed in peace. Yea, he did not only out-live Vespasian, but Titus and Domitian his Sons also, and continued unto the third year of Trajan, as Justus the Tiberian assures us in his History, whose words are reported by Photius in his Bibliotheca. So that , there is nothing of Truth, no colour of probability in this desperate figment.