A90280:350
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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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 ⟨p. 299⟩of consisted in the changing of Vowels, and immediately to give instances, wherein all he mentions consists in the change of Consonants only. But what if all this should prove the ignorance and prejudice of Morinus? First to his redoubled Assertion about the difference of the Keri and Ketib in the Consonants only, wherein he speaks as though he were blessing the world with a new and strange discovery, it is a thing known lippis & Tonsoribus, & hath been so since the days of Elias Levita; What then intended Arias Montanus to affirm the Contrary; hic nigri succus loliginis, haec est aerugo mera; he speaks not at all of the [Greek or Hebrew], but merely of the anomalous pointing of words, in a various way from the Genius of the tongue, as they are observed and reckoned up in the Massora, of other Varieties he speaks afterward; giving a particular account of the Keri Uketib, which whether he esteemed Various lections nor no, I know not. Non si te superis aeques.
The pretence of his quarrell he makes to be, that Arias affirmes 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,