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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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(2.) There is no reason to think that the Nehemiah, mentioned Ezra 2. v. 2. who came up with Zerubbabel, was that Nehemiah who was afterwards Governor of Judah, and whose actions we have written probably the most part by himself, no more then there is to think that the Seraiah there mentioned, was the Seraiah that was slain at the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The Daniel mentioned, Ezra 8.2. was not Daniel the Prophet, nor Baruch, Nehem. 10.6. that Baruch who was the Scribe of Jeremiah: nor that Jeremiah mentioned, Neh. 12. v. 11. Jeremiah the Prophet. Besides Ezra is said to come up with Zerubbabel, Nehem. 12.1. which either must not be that Ezra the great Scribe, or he must be said to come up with Zerubbabel, because he followed him on the same errand and account. It cannot be denied, but that there were sundry men at the same time of the same name; as the same person had sundry names, much more might several men have the same name in successive generations. Thus after Joshua was High Priest, there was another Joshua chief of the Levites, Neh. 12.7, 8. And that about this time there were two Zerubbabels one of the house of Nathan, the other of the posterity of Solomon, we shall make it appear in the consideration of the Genealogies of Matthew and Luke. (3.) That this was not the Nehemiah that went up with Zerubbabel, the sacred story it self gives us sufficient evidence. For (1.) He was ignorant of the state and condition of Jerusalem when he lived in the Court of Persia, Chap. 1. had he been there before, and seen their condition, and but newly returned unto Shushan, he could not have been so surprised as he was ver. 4. upon the account then given him thereof. (2.) Chap. 7. v. 5, 6. He speaks of it as a great matter, that he should find a Roll or Register of them that came first up to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in the days of Cyrus, amongst whom that Nehemiah was one. Now if this had been himself, what reason had he to mention it as a great discovery, which he could not but by his own knowledge be full well acquainted withal. Unto what time soever then the period of his life was extended, there is no colour to surmise, that he was amongst them who returned from captivity in the days of Cyrus.