A90280:252
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. 11. Ad tertium quaesitum tuum, de Tikkun Sopherim, 18 voces hanc censuram suhiisse Massora passim notat. Recensio locorum in vestibulo libri Numerorum, & Ps. 106. Utrobique non nisi 16 recensentur, sed in Num. 12. 12. duo exempla occurrunt, ut notat R: Solomon. Deest ergo unus locus mihi, quem ex nullo Judaeo hactenus expiscari potui, nec magnus ille Mercerus eum invenit. Galatinus hoc thema non intellexit, & aliena exemplaadmiscet Sic & alii qui corruptiones ista esse putant. Nec ullum hactenus ex nostris sive Evangelicis sive Catholicis vidi, qui explicârit, quae fuerint Scribae isti, & quales [Greek or Hebrew] ipsorum. Quàm antiquae hae notae de Tikkun ⟨p. 183⟩sint, liquidò mihi nondum constat. Antiquior ipsarum memoria est in libro [Greek or Hebrew] qui ante Talmud Babilonicum fertur conscriptus. Dissentiunt tamen Hebraei; de ejus autore & tempore. In Talmud neutro ulla planè istius Tikkun mentio fit, cùm aliàs [Greek or Hebrew] long minoris negotii in Talmud commemoretur. Si aliter ista loca fuissent aliquando scripta, Onkelos & Jonathan id vel semel expressissent. Nec Josephus reticuisset, qui contrarium Hebraeis adscribit, nullam scilicet unquam literam mutatam fuiste in lege ab Hebraeis popularibus suis, lib. 1. contra Appionem. Talmudistae in Levit. 27. vers. ult. diversis locis notant, nec Prophetae ulli licitum fuisse vel minimum in Lege mutare vel innovare. Quomodo ergo Scribae quidam vulgares hanc audaciam sibi arrogâssent, textum sacrum in literis & sensu corrigere? In silentio itaque omnium, in aurem tibi dico, Sopherim hosce fuisse ipsos authors sacros, Mosen & Prophetas, qui nunquam aliter scripserunt, quàm hodiè scriptum legitur. At sapientes Hebraeorum nasutiores, animadvertentes inconvenientiam quandam ⟨p. 184⟩in istis locis, scripserunt, aliter istos authors loqui debuisse, & secundùm cohaerentiam propositi textus, sic vel sic scribere, sed pro eo maluisse sic scribere, & id sic efferre, ut illud hodie in textu est. Veluti Gen. 18. 22. lectum scriptum, & Abraham adhuc stabat coram Domino. Itáne? ubi legitur, inquiunt sapientes, quòd Abraham venerit ad Dominum, & steterit coram eo; Contrarium dicitur in praecedentibus, DEUS scilicet venit ad Abraham, & dixit ad eum: Num ego celo ab Abrahamo &c. Clamour Sodomae & Gomorrhae magnus est &c. Ideoque Moses scribere debuit. Et Dominus adhuc stabat coram Abrahamo.