A90280:302
Of the divine original, authority, self-evidencing light, and power of the Scriptures. With an…Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an…
Of the divine original, authority, self-evidencing light, and power of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoined some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internal Light, revelation, &c. / By John Owen: D.D.Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoyned some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internall Light, revelation, &c. / By Iohn Owen: D.D.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall for Tho, 1659
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Sect. 13. In this state and condition they every where discover their rancour and malice against Christ, calling him in contempt and reproach [Greek or Hebrew], who is [Greek or Hebrew] relating monstrous figments concerning him, and their dealing with him, under the name of Jesus the son of Pandira. Some deny that by Jesus the son of Pandira and Stada in the Talmud the blessed Messiah is intended. So did Galatinus. Arcan: Relig. Cathol: lib. 1. cap. 7. and Reuchlins Cabal. lib. 1. p. 636. Guliel: Schickard: in Proem. Tarich. p. 83. The contrary is asserted by Reynoldus praelec. in lib. Apoc. praelec. 103. p. 405, 406. Buxtorfius lexic. Rab. voce [Greek or Hebrew] and also in [Greek or Hebrew]; Vorstius not: ad Tzem: Dau: pag. 264. And in truth the Reason pleaded by Galatinus and others, to prove that they did not intend our Saviour doth upon due consideration evince the contrary. The Jesus (say they) who is mentioned in the Talmud, lived in the days of the Maccabees, being slain in the time of Hyrcanus ⟨p. 238⟩or of Aristobulus, an 100 years before the death of the true Messiah: so that it cannot be he who is by them intended. But this is invented by the cursed wretches, that it should not appear that their Temple was so soon destroyed after their wicked defection from God, in killing of his son. This is most manifest from what is cited by Genebrard from Abraham Levita in his Cabala hystoriae, where he says, that Christians invented this story that Jesus was crucified in the life of Herod, (that is the Tetrarch) that it might appear that their Temple was destroyed immediately thereupon: when (saith he) it is evident from the Mishna, and Talmud, that he lived in the time of Alexander, and was crucified in the days of Aristobulus. So discovering the true ground why they perverted the whole story of his Time: namely lest all the world should see their sin and punishment standing so near together. But it is well, that the time of our Saviours suffering and death was affirmed even by the Heathens, before either their Mishna or Talmud were borne or thought of. Abolendo ⟨p. 239⟩rumori (he speaks of & Nero of his firing Rome) subdidit reos; & quaesitissimis poenis affecit, quos per flagitia invisos, vulgus Christianos appellabat. Author nominis ejus Christus, qui Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio affectus erat. Tacit. Annal. lib.
Sect. 13. In this state and condition they every where discover their rancour and malice against Christ, calling him in contempt and reproach , who is relating monstrous figments concerning him, and their dealing with him, under the name of Jesus the son of Pandira. Some deny that by Jesus the son of Pandira and Stada in the Talmud the blessed Messias is intended. So did Galatinus. Arcan: Relig. Cathol: lib. 1. cap. 7. and Reuchlins Cabal. lib. 1. p. 636. Guliel: Schickard: in Prooem. Tarich. p. 83. The contrary is asserted by Reynoldus praelec. in lib. Apoc. praelec. 103. p. 405, 406. Buxtorfius lexic. Rab. voce and also in ; Vorstius not: ad Tzem: Dau: pag. 264. And in truth the Reason pleaded by Galatinus and others, to prove that they did not intend our Saviour doth upon due consideration evince the contrary. The Jesus (say they) who is mentioned in the Talmud, lived in the daies of the Machabees, being slaine in the time of Hyrcanus