A90280:285
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. 3. It is well known what use the Papists make of this conceit. Bellarmine maintains that there are errors crept into the original by this addition of the points. ⟨p. 214⟩de Verb. Dei: lib. 2. cap. 2. Hisce duabus sententiis refutatis restat tertia quam ego verissimam puto, quae est, scripturas Hebraicas non esse in universum depravatas opera & malitia Judaeorum, nec tamen omnino esse integras & puras, sed habere suos errores quosdam, qui partim irrepserint n• gligentiâ & ignorantiâ librariorum, &c: partim ignorantiâ Rabbinorum qui puncta addiderunt: itaque possumus si volumus puncta detrahere, & aliter legere. These two opinions being confuted, the third remaineth which I suppose to be most true, which is that the Hebrew scriptures are not universally corrupted by the malicious work of the Jews, nor yet are wholly pure or entire, but that they have errors, which have crept in partly by the negligence and ignorance of the transcribers, partly by the ignorance of the Rabbins who added the points: whence we may if we please reject the points and read otherwise.
Sect. 3. It is well known what use the Papists make of this conceit. Bellarmine maintaines that there are errors crept into the originall by this addition of the points. ⟨p. 214⟩de Verb. Dei: lib. 2. cap. 2. Hisce duabus sententiis refutatis restat tertia quam ego verissimam puto, quae est, scripturas Hebraicas non esse in universum depravatas opera & malitia Judaeorum, nec tamen omnino esse integras & puras, sed habere suos errores quosdam, qui partim irrepserint n• gligentiâ & ignorantiâ librariorum, &c: partim ignorantiâ Rabbinorum qui puncta addiderunt: itaque possumus si volumus puncta detrahere, & aliter legere. These two opinions being confuted, the third remaineth which I supose to be most true, which is that the Hebrew scriptures are not universally corrupted by the malitious worke of the Jewes, nor yet are wholy pure or entire, but that they have errors, which have crept in partly by the negliligence and ignorance of the transcribers, partly by the ignorance of the Rabbins who added the points: whence we may if we please reject the points and read otherwise.