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The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded
Phronemma tou pneumatou, or, The grace and duty of being spiritually-minded declared and practically improved / by John Owen ...Phronēma tou pneumatou, or, The grace and duty of being spiritually-minded declared and practically improved / by John Owen ...
London: printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Ponder, 1681
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.
The Words of the Text explained.
THE Expression in our Translation sounds differently from that in the Original. To be spiritually minded, say we. In the Original it is [Greek or Hebrew]; as that in the former part of the Verse is [Greek or Hebrew]; which we render to be carnally minded. In the Margin we read, the minding of the Flesh and the minding of the Spirit. And there is great Variety in the rendering of the words in all Translations both ancient and modern. Prudentia, Sapientia, Intelligentia, Mens, Cogitatio, Discretio, id quod Spiritus sapit; the Wisdom, the Understanding, the Mind, the Thought or Contrivance, the Discretion of the Spirit, that which the Spirit savoureth, are used to express it. All our English Translations from Tindals the first of them, have constantly used, to be spiritually minded. Neither do I know any words whereby the Emphasis of the Original, considering the design of the Apostle in the place can be better expressed. But the Meaning of the Holy Ghost in them must be further enquired into.
THE Expression in our Translation sounds differently from that in the Original. To be spiritually minded, say we. In the Original it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; as that in the former part of the Verse is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; which we render to be carnally minded. In the Margin we read, the minding of the Flesh and the minding of the Spirit. And there is great Variety in the rendring of the words in all Translations both ancient and modern. Prudentia, Sapientia, Intelligentia, Mens, Cogitatio, Discretio, id quod Spiritus sapit; the Wisdom, the Vnderstanding, the Mind, the Thought or Contrivance, the Discretion of the Spirit, that which the Spirit savoureth, are used to express it. All our English Translations from Tindals the first of them, have constantly used, to be spiritually minded. Neither do I know any words whereby the Emphasis of the Original, considering the design of the Apostle in the place can be better expressed. But the Meaning of the Holy Ghost in them must be further enquired into.