A90280:339
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. 13. Morinus in his late Opuscula Hebraea Samaritica, in his Digression against the Hebrew points and Accents the first part pag: 209: brings in a new Argument to prove that the puncta vocalia were invented by the Jewish Grammarians, however the distinction of sections ⟨p. 286⟩might be before. This he attempts out of a discourse of Aben Ezra concerning the successive means of the preservation of the Scripture: first by the men of the great Synagogue, then by the Massorites, then by the Grammarians. As he assigns all these their several works, so to the Grammarians the skill of Knowing the progresses of the holy tongue, the generation of the Kingly points and of Sheva, as he is by him there cited at large. After he labours to prove by sundry instances, that the Puncta vocalia are by him called Reges, and not the Accents as is now the use. And in the Addenda to his book prefixed to it, he triumphs upon a discovery that the vowels are so called by Rabbi Jehuda Chiug the most Ancient of the Jewish Grammarians. The business is now it seems quite finished; and he cries out; Oculis aliorum non egemus amplius, [Greek or Hebrew] nunc sumus. A sacrifice is doubtless due to this drag of Morinus. But quid dignum tanto.
Sect. 13. Morinus in his late Opuscula Hebraea Samaritica, in his Digression against the Hebrew points and Accents the first part pag: 209: brings in a new Argument to prove that the puncta vocalia were invented by the Jewish Gramarians, however the distinction of sections ⟨p. 286⟩might be before. This he attempts out of a discourse of Aben Ezra concerning the successive meanes of the preservation of the Scripture: first by the men of the great Synagogue, then by the Massorites, then by the Grammarians. As he assignes all these their severall workes, so to the Grammarians the skill of Knowing the progresses of the holy tongue, the generation of the Kingly points and of Sheva, as he is by him there cited at large. After he labours to prove by sundry instances, that the Puncta vocalia are by him called Reges, and not the Accents as is now the use. And in the Addenda to his booke praefixed to it, he triumphs upon a discovery that the vowels are so called by Rabbi Jehuda Chiug the most Antient of the Jewish Grammarians. The busines is now it seemes quite finished; and he cryes out; Oculis aliorum non egemus amplius, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 nunc sumus. A sacrifice is doubtlesse due to this dragge of Morinus. But quid dignum tanto.