A53696:792
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.
§ 11 We must therefore in the first place; abate from the whole account of five hundred ninety nine years before stated, the sum of thirty seven years, which ensued after the death of our Saviour, until the destruction of Jerusalem; and the remnant is five ⟨p. 189⟩hundred sixty two years. Now five hundred sixty two years exceeds the number of four hundred ninety stated in Daniels Vision, seventy two years. It appears then, that the beginning and ending of the seventy Weeks, cannot be the Decree of Cyrus, and the death of our Saviour; there being seventy two years between them, more then the Weeks contain, or can be extended unto. The end we have already fixed from the Text, and therefore it doth not appear that their date and rise can be taken from the Decree of Cyrus. Sundry things are offered to disentangle us from this difficulty.
§ 11 We must therefore in the first place; abate from the whole account of five hundred ninety nine years before stated, the summ of thirty seven years, which ensued after the death of our Saviour, untill the destruction of Jerusalem; and the remnant is five ⟨p. 189⟩hundred sixty two years. Now five hundred sixty two years exceeds the number of four hundred ninety stated in Daniels Vision, seventy two years. It appears then, that the beginning and ending of the seventy Weeks, cannot be the Decree of Cyrus, and the death of our Saviour; there being seventy two years between them, more then the Weeks contain, or can be extended unto. The end we have already fixed from the Text, and therefore it doth not appear that their date and rise can be taken from the Decree of Cyrus. Sundry things are offered to disintangle us from this difficulty.
The most learned Reynolds in his Praelaections on the Apocryphal Books, allowing our account above-mentioned, as to the substance of it, especially that which concerneth the Persian Empire, about which alone there is any considerable difference, resolves yet at length, that the number of seventy Weeks, which is a round complete number, is put for an uncertain number, thereabouts, more or less, over or under, not much varying from it. And on this supposition, he dates the beginning of the Weeks in the Decree of Cyrus. To confirm his opinion, he giveth sundry instances of this kind of computation in the Scripture, and contends that the particular reason of limiting the whole time unto seventy Weeks, was to make it answer unto the seventy years captivity that immediately preceded it. The time to follow being declared to be just seven times as much.