A90280:348
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 2 1. All the difference in these words is in the Consonants, not at all in the Vowels. The Word in the margin owns the Vowels in the line, as proper to it; and the Vowels in the line seem to be placed to the Word whereunto they do not belong, because there is no other meet place for them in the line where they are to be continued as belonging to the Integrity of the Scripture.
Sect. 2 1. All the difference in these words is in the Consonants, not at all in the Vowels. The Word in the margin ownes the Vowels in the line, as proper to it; and the Vowels in the line seeme to be placed to the Word whereunto they doe not belong, because there is no other meet place for them in the line where they are to be continued as belonging to the Integrity of the Scripture.
Sect. 3. Morinus to manifest his rage against the Hebrew Text, takes from hence Occasion to quarrel with Arias Montanus, and to accuse him of ignorance and false dealing; De Heb. Text. sincere. Excer. 1. cap. 4. pag. 40.
Sect. 3. Morinus to manifest his rage against the Hebrew Text, takes from hence Occasion to quarrell with Arias Montanus, and to accuse him of ignorance and false dealing; De Heb. Text. sincer. Excer. 1. cap. 4. pag. 40.
The pretence of his quarrel he makes to be, that Arias affirms the greatest part of these Various lections to consist in some differences of the points; for which purpose he cites his words out of his preface to his Collection of Various lections. Maxima in his lectionibus Varietatis pars in hujusmodi punctorum discrepantia Consistit, ⟨p. 298⟩ut toto hujus Mazzoreth sive variarum lectionum volumine demonstratur. Whereunto he subjoins, mira assertion una quidem in punctis sita est. Catalogum plurimorum ipse ad finem praefationis adtexuit. Et Varietates omnes sunt in literis, nulla in punctis. Confidentius scribo omnium variarum lectionum quas Judaei appellant [Greek or Hebrew] Keri & Ketib: de quibus agit Arias nulla prorsus ad puncta pertinet. Iterū confidentius, &c. Would not any man think but that the man had made here some great discovery, both as to the nature of the [Greek or Hebrew] as also to the ignorance of Arias, whom he goes on to reproach as a Person unacquainted with the Massora, and with the Various lections of Ben-Asher, and Ben-Naphtali, of the East and Western Jews, at the end of the Venetian Bibles; which Bibles he chiefly used in the printing of his own. And yet on the other hand, men acquainted with the Ability and great deserving of Arias, will be hardly persuaded, that he was so blind and ignorant as to affirm the greatest part of the variety he spoke