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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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Exercitatio XV.
Chronological Computation of the Times determined in Daniel's weeks. Difficulty thereof acknowledged. Beginning before the Reign of Cyrus rejected. Double beginning of the Kingdom of Cyrus. That over Persia. That over the Babylonian Monarchy. Foreign Accounts to be suited unto the Scripture. Beginning of the Reign of Cyrus over Persia when. Over the whole Empire when. The space of time from thence to the destruction of Jerusalem, 599 years. Duration of the Persian Empire. Of the Empire of the Seleucidae to the Rule of Jonathan among the Jews. Duration of the Egyptian Kingdom, or Reign of the Ptolemy's Rule of the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great. From the Birth of Christ, to the destruction of Jerusalem. From the first Decree of Cyrus, to the destruction of Jerusalem 599 years. Precise End of Daniels Weeks, the death of the Messiah. 37 Years taken from the former account. Opinion of Reynolds. Examined, rejected. Meaning of [Greek or Hebrew] cut off; limited; not abbreviated. Vulgar Latin, and Mountacue noted. Opinion of the Jews, rejected. Account of Beroaldus, Broughton, Genebrand, Willet. The Decree of Cyrus not intended in the Prophecy. Of the Life and Age of Nehemiah. He came not up with Zerubbabel. The Decree of Darius. What Darius that was. Hystaspes. Not the Decree intended. This Darius not Nothus; proved against Scaliger. The Decrees of Artaxerxes to Ezra and Nehemiah examined. Longimanus, not Memor, intended. Decree unto Ezra proved to be the Decree mentioned.
Chronological Computation of the Times determined in Daniel's weeks. Difficulty thereof acknowledged. Beginning before the Reign of Cyrus rejected. Double beginning of the Kingdom of Cyrus. That over Persia. That over the Babylonian Monarchy. Forreign Accounts to be suited unto the Scripture. Beginning of the Reign of Cyrus over Persia when. Over the whole Empire when. The space of time from thence to the destruction of Jerusalem, 599 years. Duration of the Persian Empire. Of the Empire of the Seleucidae to the Rule of Jonathan among the Jews. Duration of the Egyptian Kingdom, or Reign of the Ptolomey's Rule of the Hasmonaeans and Herod the Great. From the Birth of Christ, to the destruction of Jerusalem. From the first Decree of Cyrus, to the destruction of Jerusalem 599 years. Precise End of Daniels Weeks, the death of the Messiah. 37 Years taken from the former account. Opinion of Reynolds. Examined, rejected. Meaning of cut off; limited; not abbreviated. Vulgar Latin, and Mountacue noted. Opinion of the Jews, rejected. Account of Beroaldus, Broughton, Genebrand, Willet. The Decree of Cyrus not intended in the Prophecy. Of the Life and Age of Nehemiah. He came not up with Zerubbabel. The Decree of Darius. What Darius that was. Hystaspes. Not the Decree intended. This Darius not Nothus; proved against Scaliger. The Decrees of Artaxerxes to Ezra and Nehemiah examined. Longimanus, not Memor, intended. Decree unto Ezra proved to be the Decree mentioned.