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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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Fifthly, That the name of this Child was to be Immanuel, whereas he of whom we speak was called Jesus, Mat. 1.21.
Sixthly, That the Child here mentioned was to be fed and nourished with butter and honey, which cannot be spoken, nor is written of Jesus of Nazareth.
Sixthly, That the Child here mentioned was to be fed and nourished with butter and hony, which cannot be spoken, nor is written of Jesus of N•z•reth.
§ 23 In answer unto th•se Objections, some learned men have granted unto the Jews, that th•se words of the Prophet were literally fulfilled in some one then a Virgin, and afterwards married in those days, and that they are only in a mystical sense, applied by Matthew to the bir•h of the Lord Jesus, as they say, are sundry other things that are spoken primarily of oth••s in the Old Testament. But the truth is, this Answer is neither •a•e in its self, nor needful as to the Argument of the Jews, nor consistent with the sen•e of the place, or Truth of the words themselves. First, It is not safe, as to the faith of Christians. For whereas the birth of the Messiah of a Virgin was so signal a Miracle, and so eminent a characteristical note of his person, if it be not directly foretold and prophesied of in this place; there was no one prediction of it made unto the Church of the Jews. Now how this should seem reasonable, whereas things of far less concernment are foretold, is not easily made to appear.