A53696:811
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 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.
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, Graecian, Hasmonaean, Herodian, and Roman Rule, we have before declared.
And there wants not reason to induce us to fix on this Decree, rather than any other, § 22 being indeed the most famous, and most useful to the people of all the rest. By what means it was obtained, is not recorded. Evident it is that Ezra had great favour with the King, and that he had convinced him of the greatness and power of that God whom he served, chap. 8.22. Besides, it was not a mere proclamation of liberty, like that of Cyrus, which was renewed by Darius; but a Decree, a Law made by the King and his seven Counsellors, chap. 7.14. The highest and most irrefragable Legislative Power amongst the Medes and Persians. Moreover, with the Decree he had a formal Commission, where he is said not only to have leave to go, but to be sent by the King and his Council. Besides, the former Decrees barely respected the Temple; and it seems that in the execution