A90280:325
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. 6. 3. The testimony of Elias ⟨p. 270⟩Levita, not only as to his own judgment, but also as to what he mentions from Aben Ezra and others, is insisted on. They affirm, saith he, that we have received the whole Punctation from the Tiberian Massorites. An. It is very true, that Elijah was of that judgment; and it may well be supposed, that if that Opinion had not fallen into his mind, the world had been little acquainted with it at this day. That by receiving of the punctation from the Tiberians, the Continuation of it in their School, not the invention of it is intended by Aben Ezra, is beyond all exception evinced by Buxtorfius. De Punct. Antiq. p. 1. cap. 3. Nor can any thing be spoken more directly to the contrary of what is intended, than that which is urged in the Prolegomena from Aben Ezra, comment. in Exod. 25. 31. where he affirms that he saw some books examined in all the letters, and the whole punctation by the wise men of Tiberias; namely to try, whether it were done exactly, according to the patterns they had. Besides all Elijah Arguments are notably answered by Rabbi Azarias; ⟨p. 271⟩whose Answers are repeated by Joseph de Voysin in his most learned observations, on the Proemium of the Pugio fidei, pag. 91. 92. And the same Azarias shows the consistency of the various opinions that were among the Jews about the vowels, ascribing them as to their virtue and force, to Moses, or God on mount Sinai; as to their figure and character to Ezra; as to the restoration of their use, unto the Massorites.
Sect. 6. 3. The testimony of Elias ⟨p. 270⟩Levita, not only as to his own judgment, but also as to what he mentions from Aben Ezra and others, is insisted on. They affirme, saith he, that we have received the whole Punctation from the Tiberian Massorites. An. It is very true, that Elias was of that judgment; and it may well be supposed, that if that Opinion had not fallen into his mind, the world had been little acquainted with it at this day. That by receiving of the punctation from the Tiberians, the Continuation of it in their School, not the invention of it is intended by Aben Ezra, is beyond all exception evinced by Buxtorfius. De Punct. Antiq. p. 1. cap. 3. Nor can any thing be spoken more directly to the contrary of what is intended, than that which is urged in the Prolegomena from Aben Ezra, comment. in