Exercitatio III.

Exercitatio III.

The Time of the Writing of this Epistle to the Hebrews. The Use of the right stating thereof. After his release out of Prison. Before the Death of James. Before the Second of Peter. The Time of Pauls coming to Rome. The Condition of the affairs of the Jews at that time. The Martyrdom of James. State of the Churches of the Hebrews. Constant in the Observation of Mosaical Institutions. Warned to leave Jerusalem. That Warning what, and how given. Causes of their unwillingness so to do. The Occasion and Success of this Epistle.

The Time of the Writing of this Epistle to the Hebrews. The Vse of the right stating thereof. After his release out of Prison. Before the Death of James. Before the Second of Peter. The Time of Pauls coming to Rome. The Condition of the affairs of the Jews at that time. The Martyrdom of James. State of the Churches of the Hebrews. Constant in the Observation of Mosaical Institutions. Warned to leave Jerusalem. That Warning what, and how given. Causes of their unwillingness so to do. The Occasion and Success of this Epistle.

§ 1 THAT was not amiss observed of Old by Chrysostom Praesat. in Com. ad Epist. ad Rom. that a due Observation of the Time and Season wherein the Epistles of Paul were written, doth give great light unto the understanding of many passages in them. This Baronius ad A.C. 55. N. 42. well confirms by an instance of their mistake, who suppose the Shipwreck of Paul at Mileta, Acts 27. to have been that mentioned by him, 2. Cor. 11. when he was a night and a day in the deep; that Epistle being written some years before his sailing towards Rome. And we may well apply this Observation to this Epistle unto the Hebrews. A discovery of the Time and season wherein it was written, will both free us from sundry mistakes, and also give us some light into the occasion and design of it. This therefore we shall now inquire into.