A53696:955
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.
§ 55 Agreeable unto these Testimonies the Jews themselves have a Tradition about the sufferings of the Messiah, which sometimes breaks forth amongst them. In Midrash Tehillim, on Psal. 2. Rabbi Hana in the name of Rabbi Idi, says, that the Messiah must bear the third part of the Affliction that shall ever be in the world. And R. Machir, in Abkath Kocheb, affirms, that God inquired of the soul of the Messiah at the beginning of the Creation, whether he would endure sufferings and afflictions for the purging away the sins of his people, to which he answered, that he would hear them with joy. And that these sufferings of the Messiah are such, as that without the consideration of them, no rational account can be given of any of their services or sacrifices, shall in our Exposition be fully declared. Now upon these Testimonies it is evident, that the great Argument used by the Jews to disprove Jesus of Nazareth from being the true Messiah, namely, his meanness, poverty, persecutions, and sufferings in this world, doth strongly confirm the truth of our faith, that he only was so indeed.
§ 55 Agreeable unto these Testimonies the Jews themselves have a Tradition about the sufferings of the Messiah, which sometimes breaks forth amongst them. In Midrash Tehillim, on Psal. 2. Rabbi Hana in the name of Rabbi Idi, sayes, that the Messiah must bear the third part of the Affliction that shall ever be in the world. And R. Machir, in Abkath Kocheb, affirms, that God inquired of the soul of the Messiah at the beginning of the Creation, whether he would endure sufferings and afflictions for the purging away the sins of his people, to which he answered, that he would hear them with joy. And that these sufferings of the Messiah are such, as that without the consideration of them, no rational account can be given of any of their services or sacrifices, shall in our Exposition be fully declared. Now upon these Testimonies it is evident, that the great Argument used by the Jews to disprove Jesus of Nazareth from being the true Messiah, namely, his meanness, poverty, persecutions, and sufferings in this world, doth strongly confirm the truth of our faith, that he only was so indeed.