A53696:798
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.
§ 14 Others there are, men learned and pious, who resolving to date these Weeks from the first of Cyrus, and to make 490 years the exact measure of the time from thence unto the death of Messiah, and not being able to disprove the computation from Alexander unto that time, fall also upon the Persian Empire, and cut it short above fifty years of the true account of its duration, to fit it unto the place and measure provided for it. To this end, they reject the accounts of the Chaldeans, Graecians and Romans, concerning the time of its continuance, as fabulous, and give us a new arbitrary account of the Reign of these Kings whom they will allow.
§ 14 Others there are, men learned and pious, who resolving to date these Weeks from the first of Cyrus, and to make 490 years the exact measure of the time from thence unto the death of Messiah, and not being able to disprove the computation from Alexander unto that time, fall also upon the Persian Empire, and cut it short above fifty years of the true account of its duration, to fit it unto the place and measure provided for it. To this end, they reject the accounts of the Chaldaeans, Graecians and Romans, concerning the time of its continuance, as fabulous, and give us a new arbitrary account of the Reign of these Kings whom they will allow.
This course steers Beroaldus, Broughton, Genebrard, and Willet, with sundry others. And the truth is, were the supposition once cleared, that the Decree or Commandment mentioned by Gabriel, must needs be given out by Cyrus, there were some colour for offering of this violence, unto all consent of time, with account of things done, written by men prudent and sober in their own days. But this is so far from being a basis or foundation sufficient to warrant such a procedure, that take it nakedly of it self without the burden upon it, and it is destitute of all probability. The word, Decree, or Commandment mentioned unto Daniel, is that for the building of Jerusalem; that is the restoring of it into a condition of rule and government; that is the building of a City, and not only the setting up of houses. Consequent unto this, there building of the walls also for the defence of the people is mentioned. Of this it is said, that it should fall out in a troublesome time, or a time of straits, as accordingly it did fall out in the days of Nehemiah. In the whole there is not the least mention of building the Temple, which had it been intended, could not I suppose have been omitted. But in the Decree of Cyrus, the principal thing mentioned and aimed at, is the re-edification of the Temple, the City and the Walls thereof being not spoken of in it, as may be seen in the first of Ezra at large.