A90280:257
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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CHAP. III.
Of various lections in the Greek Copies of the new Testament.
Of various lections in the Greeke Copies of the new Testament.
Sect. 1. FOR Various Lections in the Greek Copies of the new Testament, we know with what diligence and industry, they have been collected by some, and what improvement hath been made of those Collections by others. Protestants ⟨p. 189⟩for the most part have been the chiefest collectors of them; Stephanus, Camerarius, Beza, Camero, Grotius, Drusius, Hensius, D'Dieu, Capellus, all following Erasmus, have had the prime hand in that work. Papists have ploughed with their Heifer to disparage the original, and to cry up the vulgar Latin; A specimen of their endeavours we have in the late virulent Exercitations of Morinus. At first very few were observed. What an heap or Bulk they are now swelled unto, we see in this Appendix. The collection of them makes up a Book bigger than the new Testament it self. Of those that went before, most gave us only what they found in some particular Copies that themselves were possessors of; some those only which they judged of importance, or that might make some pretence to be considered whether they were proper or no; Here we have all, that by any means could be brought to hand, and that whether they are tolerably attested for various lections or no; for as to any contribution unto the better ⟨p. 190⟩understanding of the Scripture from them; it cannot be pretended. And whether this work may yet grow, I know not.
Sect. 1. FOR Various Lections in the Greeke Copies of the new Testament, we know with what diligence and industry, they have been collected by some, and what improvement hath been made of those Collections by others. Protestants