A90280:321
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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but give me leave to say, that supposing this to be false, sufficient instances of the like mistakes may be given in him. For the Testimony of the Talmud, I have often declared, that with me it is of no weight, unless seconded by very good evidence. And indeed the foundation of ⟨p. 263⟩the whole story is very vain. The Jews are thought and said to have forgot their own Characters in the Captivity, and to have learned the Chaldean, upon the account whereof they adhered unto it after their return; when the same men were alive at the burning of one, and the building of the other Temple; that the men of one and the same generation should forget the use of their own letters, which they had been exercised in, is incredible. Besides they had their Bibles with them always, and that in their own character only; whither they had any one other book or no we know not: and whence then this forgetting of one Character, and learning of another should arise, doth not appear. Nor shall I in such an improbable fiction lay much weight on Testimonies, the most ancient whereof is 600 years later then the pretended matter of fact.
but give me leave to say, that supposing this to be false, sufficient instances of the like mistakes may be given in him. For the Testimony of the Talmud, I have often declared, that with me it is of no weight, unlesse seconded by very good evidence. And indeed the foundation of ⟨p. 263⟩the whole story is very vaine. The Jews are thought and said to have forgot their own Characters in the Captivity, and to have learned the Chaldean, upon the account whereof they adhered unto it after their returne; when the same men were alive at the burning of one, and the building of the other Temple; that the men of one and the same generation should forget the use of their own letters, which they had been exercised in, is incredible. Besides they had their Bibles with them alwaies, and that in their own character only; whither they had any one other book or no we know not: and whence then this forgetting of one Character, and learning of another should arise, doth not appeare. Nor shall I in such an improbable fiction lay much weight on Testimonys, the most antient whereof is 600 years later then the pretended matter of fact.