A53696:781
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.
But these things are much questioned; for whereas some do doubt whether the time limited do absolutely expire in the death of the Messiah, and be not rather to be ex•ended unto the destruction of the City and Temple. There be many more, that do peremptorily deny that it is to take date from the first Decree of Cyrus: And so must we also, unless it can be proved that the times mentioned are justly commensurate from thence unto the death of Messiah: For seeing there were other Decrees, as we shall find, to the same purpose, which might be respected as well as that; there is no reason why we should offer violence unto other approved computations, to force them to submit unto the Scripture Account, when we first offer violence unto that, to make it serve our own opinion. I shall therefore proceed in the way proposed, and first give a just computation of the time from the first year of the Empire of Cyrus, unto the destruction of the City and Temple, and then enquire whether the seventy Weeks, or 490 years here determined, be commensurate unto the whole, or only unto some part of it; and if to some part only, then to what part of it, and how we are directed by the Text to the beginning and end of the computation.
But these things are much questioned; for whereas some do doubt whether the time limited do absolutely expire in the death of the Messiah, and be not rather to be ex•ended unto the destruction of the City and Temple. There be many more, that do peremptorily deny that it is to take date from the first Decree of Cyrus: And so must we also, unless it can be proved that the times mentioned are justly commensurate from thence unto the death of Messiah: For seeing there were other Decrees, as we shall find, to the same purpose, which might be respected as well as that; there is no reason why we should offer violence unto other approved computations, to force them to submit unto the Scripture Account, when we first offer violence unto that, to make it serve our own opinion. I shall therefore proce•d in the way proposed, and first give a just computation of the time from the first year of the Empire of Cyrus, unto the destruction of the City and Temple, and then enquire whether the seventy Weeks, or 490 years here determined, be commensurate unto the whole, or only unto some part of it; and if to some part only, then to what part of it, and how we are directed by the Text to the beginni•g and end of the computation.