A53696:893
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.
Thirdly, He seems not to repeat the words of the Prophet himself immediately, but only to record the answer which from these words of the Prophet, was given unto Herod by the Priests and Scribes. So that the repetition of the words is theirs, and not his properly.
Fourthly, Whose ever the words are, as there is nothing in the whole of them discrepant from, much less contrary unto, those of the Prophet, nor are used to signify any thing but the open plain intention of the Prophet: so are all the particulars wherein a difference appears between them, capable of a fair Reconciliation. This we shall manifest by passing briefly through them.
Fourthly, Whose ever the words are, as there is nothing in the whole of them discrepant from, much less contrary unto, those of the Prophet, nor are used to signifie any thing but the open plain intention of the Prophet: so are all the particulars wherein a difference appears between them, capable of a fair Reconciliation. This we shall manifest by passing briefly through them.
The first difference is in the first words; [Greek or Hebrew], and thou Bethlehem Ephrata; which are rendered in the Evangelist; [Greek or Hebrew]; and thou Bethlehem in the Land of Judah; That Bethlehem which was of old called Ephrata, from its first Builder, 1 Chron. 4.4. that name being now forgotten and worn out of use, is here said to be, as it was indeed, in the Land of Judah; to distinguish it from Bethlehem, that was in the Lot or Land of Zebulun, as both Rashi and Kimchi observe, Josh. 19.15. And it may be to denote withal the relation that the Messiah had to Judah. So that here there is no discrepancy. Bethlehem Ephrata, and Bethlehem in the Land Judah, are one and the same name and place. 2. In the ensuing words there is more variety, [Greek or Hebrew], little to be in the thousands of Judah: in the Evangelist, [Greek or Hebrew]; art not the least among the Leaders of Judah; [Greek or Hebrew], parva, or little, in the positive, is rendered by the Evangelist, [Greek or Hebrew], in the superlative degree, the Hebrews have no superlative degree in their Language, and therefore do often express the importance of it by the positive with [Greek or Hebrew] following, as it doth in this place; [Greek or Hebrew], little in the thousands of Judah, that is the least of them, if the word be adjectively to be expounded.