A90280:215
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. 4. The renownedly learned Prefacer unto the Arabic Translation in this Edition of it, tells us, that the Work of translating the Pentateuch into that Language, was performed by a Jew, who took care to give countenance to his own private opinions, and so render them Authentic by bringing them into the Text of his Translation.
Sect. 4. The renownedly learned Prefacer unto the Arabick Translation in this Edition of it, tells us, that the Worke of translating the Pentateuch into that Language, was performed by a Jew, who took care to give countenance to his own private opinions, and so render them Authenticke by bringing them into the Text of his Translation.
It is not of any such Attempt, that I have any cause to complain, or shall so do in reference to these Prolegomena and ⟨p. 152⟩Appendix; only I could have wished, (with submission to better Judgments be it spoken,) that in the publishing of the Bible, the Sacred Text, with the Translations, and such naked historical accounts of their Originals and preservation, as were necessary to have laid them fair and open to the Judgment of the Reader, had not been clogged with disputes and pleas for particular private opinions, imposed thereby with too much advantage on the minds of men, by their constant neighbourhood unto canonical Truth.
It is not of any such Attempt, that I have any cause to complaine, or shall so doe in reference to these Prolegomena and ⟨p. 152⟩Appendix; only I could have wished, (with submision to better Judgments be it spoken,) that in the publishing of the Bible, the Sacred Text, with the Translations, and such naked historicall accounts of their Originalls and preservation, as were necessary to have laid them faire and open to the Judgment of the Reader, had not been clogged with disputes and pleas for particular private opinions, imposed thereby with too much advantage on the minds of men, by their constant neighbourhood unto canonicall Truth.