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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
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.
In the first place, we may wholly lay aside the consideration of them, who would § 2 date the Weeks from any time whatever before the first year of the Reign, and first Decree or Cyrus. Among these are, Lyra, Burgensis, Galatinus, and he from whom he borrowed his Computation Raymandus Martini. These fix the beginning of the Weeks on the fourth year of Zedekiah, as they say, when Jeremiah gave out his Prophecy about the Babylonish Captivity, and the return from it at the end of seventy years; indeed the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and not of Zedekiah, as is apparent, Jer. 25.1, 11.
Of the like nature is the account of Solomon Jarchi, among the Jews, who dates the time limited from the destruction of the Temple by the Chaldeans. But both these accounts ⟨p. 186⟩are expressly contrary to the words of the Angel, fixing the beginning of the time designed, on the going forth of a Decree for the building Jerusalem. To these we may add all that would extend these Weeks beyond the destruction of the City and Temple by Titus, as some of the Jews would do, to comprise the Prophecy of their second fatal destruction by Hadrian, which is no way concerned in it:
Of the like nature is the account of Solomon Jarchi, among the Jews, who dates the time limited from the destruction of the Temple by the Chaldaeans. But both these accounts ⟨p. 186⟩are expresly contrary to the words of the Angel, fixing the beginning of the time designed, on the going forth of a Decree for the building Jerusalem. To these we may add all that would extend these Weeks beyond the destruction of the City and Temple by Titus, as some of the Jews would do, to comprize the Prophecy of their second fatal destruction by Hadrian, which is no way concerned in it: