A90280:347
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. 1. WE are not as yet come to a Close. There is another thing agitated in these Prolegomena, and represented in the Appendix, that ⟨p. 296⟩may seem to derogate from the Universality of my Assertion, concerning the entire preservation of the Original Copies of the Scripture. The [Greek or Hebrew] or the seriptio and lectio, or scriptum and lectum, is that which I intend. The general nature of these things is known to all them that have looked into the Bible. One word is placed in the line, and another in the margin; the Word in the line having not the Points or Vowels affixed to it that are its own, but those that belong to the Word in the Margin; Of this sort there are in the Bible 840, or thereabouts; for some of the late Editions by mistake or oversight, do differ in the precise number. All men that have wrote any Considerations on the Hebrew Text have spoken of their nature in General; So hath the Author of these Prolegomena. As to our present Concernment, namely to manifest that from them no Argument can tie us to the corruption of the Original, the ensuing Observation concerning them may suffice.
Sect. 1. VVE are not as yet come to a Close. There is another thing agitated in these Prolegomena, and represented in the Appendix, that ⟨p. 296⟩may seeme to derogate from the Universality of my Assertion, concerning the entire preservation of the Originall Copies of the Scripture. The 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or the seriptio and lectio, or scriptum and lectum, is that which I intend. The generall nature of these things is knowne to all them that have looked into the Bible. One word is placed in the line, and another in the margin; the Word in the line having not the Points or Vowels affixed to it that are its owne, but those that belong to the Word in the Margin; Of this sort there are in the Bible 840, or thereabouts; for some of the late Editions by mistake or oversight, doe differ in the precise number. All men that have wrote any Considerations on the Hebrew Text have spoken of their nature in General; So hath the Authour of these Prolegomena. As to our present Concernment, namely to manifest that from them no Argument can tye us to the corruption of the Originall, the ensuing Observation concerning them may suffice.