A90280:300
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. The foundation mentioned being laid in a Collection of Traditions, and new invention of Abominations under the name of old Traditions by this Rabbi the following Talmuds are an improvement of the same attempt, of setting up a Religion under the Curse, and against the mind and Will of God; that being rejected by him, and left without King, without Prince, without sacrifice, without image, without an Ephod, and without a Teraphim, and kind of worship, true or false, they might have something to give them countenance in their unbelief. The Talmud of Jerusalem, so called, (for it is the product of many comments on the Mishnae in the city of Tiberias, where Rabbi Judah lived) because it was compiled in the land of Canaan, whose metropolis was Jerusalem, was published about the year of Christ 230. so it is commonly received; though I find Dr. Lightfoot of late, on supposition of finding in it the name of Diocletianus ⟨p. 235⟩the Emperor, to give it a later date. But I confess I see no just ground for the alteration of his judgment, from what he delivered in another Treatise before. The Doclet mentioned by the Rabbins was beaten by the Children of Rabbi Jehuda Princeps (as himself observes) who lived in the days of one of the Antoninus's, an hundred years before Diocletian. Neither was ever Diocletian in a Low condition in the East, being a Sarmatian born, and living in the Western parts; only he went with Numerianus that Expedition into Persia, wherein he was made Emperor at his return: but this is nothing to my purpose. See Lightfoot Chronograph. cap. 81. p. 144. The Babylonian Talmud so called, because compiled in the land of Babylon, in the cities of Nahardea, Sora, and Pumbeditha, where the Jews had their Synagogues and schools, was finished about the year 506 or 510. In this greater work was the mystery of their iniquity finished, and the Engine of their own Invention for their further obduration perfectly completed. These are now the Rule of their ⟨p. 236⟩faith, the measure of their Exposition of Scriptures, the directory of their worship, the ground of their hope and Expectation.
Sect. 11. The foundation mentioned being laid in a Collection of Traditions, and new invention of Abominations under the name of old Traditions by this Rabbi the following Talmuds are an improvement of the same attempt, of setting up a Religion under the Curse, and against the mind and Will of God; that being rejected by him, and left without King, without Prince, without sacrifice, without image, without an Ephod, and without a Teraphim, and kind of worship, true or false, they might have something to give them countenance in their unbeliefe. The Talmud of Jerusalem, so called, (for it is the product of many comments on the Mishnae in the city of Tiberias, where Rabbi Juda lived) because it was compiled in the land of Canaan, whose metropolis was Jerusalem, was published about the yeare of Christ 230. so it is commonly received; though I find Dr. Lightfoot of late, on suppositiō of finding in it the name of Diocletianus