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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.
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.
- 1Curae suit non verba & syllabas aucupari, sed sententias dogmatum ponere. Hier. ad Pan. de opt. Gen. Interpret. See the whole Armour of God on Eph. 6. 17. Treat. 2. par. 8. §. •.Curae suit non verba & syllabas aucupari, sed sententias dogmatum ponere. Hier. ad Pan. de opt. Gen. Interpret. See the whole Armor of God on Eph. 6. 17. Treat. 2. par. 8. §. •.
This may serve in general to answer the alteration of the person in expressing worship: For the Psalmist useth the second person, as speaking to the Angels, thus, worship him all ye Angels. And the Apostle useth the third Person as speaking of the Angel thus, Let all the Angels worship him. Both phrases set forth one and the same sense.