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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.
It appears then that Darius Nothus was not the Author of the Decree mentioned, as § 19 also that the times of the Weeks cannot be dated from the second year of Darius Hystaspes, who was the Author of it.
After this, there is mention made of two other Commands or Decrees relating to the § 20 Temple and People, both granted by the same Artaxerxes, one in the seventh year of his Reign unto Ezra, chap. 7.7. The other in the twentieth year of his Reign, unto Nehemiah, chap. 2.1. And from one of these must the account enquired after be dated. Now, supposing that one of these Decrees must be intended, it is evident that it was Longimanus, and not Memor, who was the Author of them: For from the seventh year of Memor, which was the second of the ninety fifth Olympiad, unto the eighteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, wherein our Saviour suffered, being the third year of the two hundred and second Olympiad, are only four hundred twenty eight years, sixty two years short of the whole, or four hundred and ninety. Now these sixty two years added to the beginning of the account, from the seventh of Memor, fall in exactly on the seventh of Longimanus; from the seventh of Longimanus then to the seventh of Memor are sixty two years, and from the seventh of Memor to the eighteenth of Tiberius are four hundred twenty eight years, in the whole, four hundred and ninety. The whole number enquired after.
It was then this Decree of Longimanus, that was intended by the Angel Gabriel: for § 21 from the seventh year, wherein he sent Ezra unto Jerusalem, and unto that work which he afterwards commissionated Nehemiah to carry on and perfect, unto the cutting off of the Messiah, are exactly seventy Weeks, or four hundred and ninety years, as may appear from the accounts formerly insisted on and declared: From the first of Cyrus, supposing him to reign but three years over the whole Empire, unto the death of Christ, there was, as we have proved, five hundred sixty two years: From the first of the same Cyrus, unto the seventh of Longimanus, were seventy two years, which being deducted from the whole of five hundred sixty two years, the remainder is four hundred and ninety; which space of time, how it was apportioned between the Persian, Grecian, Hasmonaean, Herodian, and Roman Rule, we have before declared.