A53696:845
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.
First then, Being pressed with the Testimonies before insisted on out of Haggai concerning the glory of the second Temple, and the coming of the desire of all Nations thereunto, they have a Tradition that the Messiah was born the same day that the second Temple was destroyed. The story indeed which they make it up with, is weak, fabulous and ridiculous, and he who is offended with the citation of such things out of their Talmudical Doctors, is desired only to exercise patience until he shall be able himself to report from them things more serious and of greater importance; and yet from them must we learn the persuasions and convictions of the Ancient Jews, or be utterly ignorant of them. Be their stories what they will also, the powerful convincing Evidence of Truth, and the miserable shifts that the poor wretches are put unto, to keep off the Efficacy of it from their minds do sufficiently appear in them.
First then, Being pressed with the Testimonies before insisted on out of Haggai concerning the glory of the second Temple, and the coming of the desire of all Nations thereunto, they have a Tradition that the Messiah was born the same day that the second Temple was destroyed. The story indeed which they make it up with, is weak, fabulous and ridiculous, and he who is offended with the citation of such things out of their Talmudical Doctors, is desired only to exercise patience until he shall be able himself to report from them things more serious and of greater importance; and yet from them must we learn the perswasions and convictions of the Antient Jews, or be utterly ignorant of them. Be their stori•s what they will also, the powerfull convincing Evidence of Truth, and the miserable shifts that the poor wretches are put unto, to keep off the Efficacy of it from their minds do sufficiently appear in them.
The Tradition mentioned, they give us in Tractat. Bezaroth. distinct. Hajakorr; in § 14 these words; [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨p. 202⟩Rabbi Joden in the name of Rabbi Ibbo said, the Messiah was born in the day that the house of the Sanctuary was destroyed; and the story they tell to this purpose, is as followeth: It came to pass, that as a Jew was ploughing, his Ox before him lowed, and there passed by him [Greek or Hebrew], an Arabian, and he heard a voice saying, O Jew the Son of a Jew, loose thy Oxen for behold the house of the Sanctuary is destroyed; the Ox lowed the second time; and he said, O Jew the Son of a Jew, Yoke thy Oxen, for behold Messiah the King is born, he said unto him, what is his name, he answered [Greek or Hebrew], Menachem, that is, the Comforter. And in Bereshith Rabba on