A90280:246
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. 7. 3ly. We add that the whole scripture entire, as given out from God, without any loss, is preserved in the Copies of the Originals yet remaining; What varieties there are among the Copies themselves shall be afterwards declared; in them all, we say, is every letter and Title of the Word. These Copies we say, are the Rule, standard and touch-stone of all Translations ancient or modern, by which they are in all things to ⟨p. 174⟩be examined, tried, corrected, amended, and themselves only by themselves. Translations contain the Word of God, and are the Word of God, perfectly or imperfectly according as they express the words, sense and meaning of those originals. To advance any, all Translations concurring, into an Equality with the Originals, so to set them by it, as to set them up with it, on even terms, much more to propose and use them as means of castigating, amending, altering any thing in them, gathering various lections by them, is to set up an Altar of our own by the Altar of God, and to make equal the Wisdom, care, skill and diligence of men, with the wisdom, care and Providence of God himself. It is a foolish conjecture of Morinus from some words of Epiphanius, that Origen in his Octopla placed the Translation of the 70 in the middest, to be the Rule of all the Rest; even of the Hebrew its self, that was to be regulated and amended by it. (media igitur omnium catholica editio collocata erat, ut ad eam Hebraea ⟨p. 175⟩caeter aeque editions exigerentur & emendarentur; Excercit. lib. 1. cap. 3. pag. 15.) The Truth is, he placed the Hebrew, in Hebrew Characters in the first place as the Rule and standard of all the rest; the same in Greek Characters in the next place, then that of Aquila, then that of Symmachus, after which, in the fifth place followed that of the 70 mixed with that of Theodotion.
Sect. 7. 3ly. We adde that the whole scripture entire, as given out from God, without any losse, is preserved in the Copies of the Originalls yet remaining; What varieties there are among the Copies themselves shall be afterwards declared; in them all, we say, is every letter and Title of the Word. These Copies we say, are the Rule, standard and touch-stone of all Translations antient or moderne, by which they are in all things to ⟨p. 174⟩