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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Chapter › Section 72: §, 72. Of varying from the Letter of the Text.
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.
Such additions of words or alterations of phrases, as make to a more perspicuous1 expression of the Authors mind, may well be done by such as quote his sayings. For such as only cite Testimonies for proof of a point, are not so strictly tied to the words as Translators are: It is enough for the former to retain and express the true meaning of the Text which they cite, though it be in other words.
Such additions of words or alterations of phrases, as make to a more perspicuous1 expression of the Authors minde, may well be done by such as quote his sayings. For such as only cite Testimonies for proof of a point, are not so strictly tied to the words as Translators are: It is enough for the former to retain and expresse the true meaning of the Text which they cite, though it be in other words.
- 1Nec verbum de verbo curabit reader sidus interpres. Hor. de Art. Poet.Nec verbum de verbo curabit reddere sidus interpres. Hor. de Art. Poet.
Thus change of phrase doth oft better express the mind and meaning of the author,1 then a translation word for word: Therefore a faithful Interpreter stands not over-strictly upon the letter; That which the Apostles aimed at, was not to hunt after letters and syllables, but to prove doctrines; See Chap. 3. v. 9. §. 100. & Cha. 9. v. 20. §. 106.
Thus change of phrase doth oft better expresse the minde and meaning of the authour,1 then a translation word for word: Therefore a faithfull Interpreter stands not over-strictly upon the letter; That which the Apostles aimed at, was not to hunt after letters and syllables, but to prove doctrines; See Chap. 3. v. 9. §. 100. & Cha. 9. v. 20. §. 106.