A90280:365
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.
But whereas (besides the keri and ketib, the various readings of Ben Asher, and Ben Naphtali, of the East and Western Jews) there are through the neglect, oscitancy, and frailty of the Transcribers, many things befallen the Text, not such failings as happening in one Copy, may be easily rectified by others, which are not to be regarded as various lections, nor such as may be Collected out of any Ancient Copies, but faults, or mistakes in all the Copies we enjoy, or have ever been known, by the help and use of Translations, conjecturing how they read in their books, either with other words, or letters, Consonants or Points, we may collect Various lections, as out of the Original; What this Opinion upon the matter differeth from that of ⟨p. 313⟩Capellus I see not; for the difference between our Copies, and those of old, are by him assigned to no other Original; nor doth Capellus say that the Jews have voluntarily corrupted the Text; but only that alterations are befallen it, by the means and ways recounted in the Prolegomena. To make this evident by Instances! we have a great number of such Various Lections gathered by Grotius in the Appendix. The truth is, how the Volume should come under that name, at first View I much wondered. The greatest part of it, gives us no Various Lections of the Hebrew Text as is pretended; but Various interpretations of others from the Hebrew. But the Prolegomena salve that seeming difficulty. The particulars assigned as Various Lections, are not differing readings collected out of any Copies extant, or ever known to have been extant, but Critical conjectures of his own for the amendment of the Text, or at most Conjectures upon the reading of the words by Translators, especially the 70 and Vulgar latin.
But whereas (besides the keri and ketib, the various readings of Ben Asher, and Ben Napthali, of the East and Westerne Jews) there are through the neglect, oscitancy, and frailty of the Transcribers, many things befallen the Text, not such failings as happening in one Copy, may be easily rectified by others, which are not to be regarded as various lections, nor such as may be Collected out of any Antient Copies, but faults, or mistakes in all the Copies we enjoy, or have ever been known, by the help and use of Translations, conjecturing how they read in their books, either vvith other words, or letters, Consonants or Points, vve may collect Various lections, as out of the Originall; What this Opinion upon the matter differeth from that of ⟨p. 313⟩