A53696:923
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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Thirdly, This sign had the truth and force of a Promise although it was not immediately to be put in execution, and that is the reason, that the words here used, are one of them [Greek or Hebrew], conceive, in the preterperfect Tense, the other [Greek or Hebrew], in benoni, or Participle of the present Tense, to intimate the certainty of the events, as is usual in the prophetical Dialect. Their assurance then from this sign consisted herein, that God informs them, that as surely as he would accomplish the great promise of bringing forth the Messiah, and would put forth his marvellous power therein, that he should be conceived and born of a Virgin, so certain should be their present deliverance which they so desired.
Thirdly, This sign had the truth and force of a Promise although it was not immediately to be put in execution, and that is the reason, that the words here used, are one of them 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, conceive, in the preterperfect Tense, the other 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in benoni, or Participle of the present Tense, to intimate the certainty of the events, as is usual in the prophetical Dialect. Their assurance then from this sign consisted herein, that God informs them, that as surely as he would accomplish the great promise of bringing forth the Messiah, and would put forth his marvelous power therein, that he should be conceived and born of a Virgin, so certain should be their present deliverance which they so desired.
§ 32 It is further insisted on by them, that the deliverance promised was to be wrought before the Child spoken of, should know to refuse the evil and choose the good; or should come to years of discretion, v. 16. and what was this unto him that was to be born some hundred years after? Answ. (1.) That the [Greek or Hebrew], mentioned v. 16. is the same with the [Greek or Hebrew] promised, v. 14. doth not appear. The Prophet by the command of God when ⟨p. 223⟩he went unto the King with his message, took with him Shear-jashub his Son, v. 3. This certainly was for some especial end in the Word or Message that he had to deliver, the Child being then but an Infant, and of no use in the whole matter, unless to be made an instance of something that was to be done. It is therefore probable that he was the [Greek or Hebrew], the young Child designed, v. 16. before whose growing up to discretion, those Kings of Damascus and Samaria were destroyed, or (2.) The Expression may denote the time of any Child's being born and coming to the maturity of understanding, and so consequently the promised Child. In as short a space of time as this promised Child; when he shall be born, shall come to know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, shall this deliverance be wrought.