A90280:368
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. 5. It is well known that the Translation of the Seventy, if it have the Original pretended, and which alone makes it considerable, was made and finished 300 years or near thereabout, before the Incarnation of our Saviour, that was, in that time and season wherein the Oracles of God were committed to the Jews whilst that Church and people were the only people of God, accepted with him, designed by him keepers of his Word for the use of the whole Church of Christ to come, as the great and blessed foundation of truth. A time when there was an Authentic Copy of the whole Scripture, as the Rule of all others kept in the Temple; now can it be once imagined that there should be at that time such notorious varieties in the Copies of the Scripture through the negligence of that Church, & yet afterwards neither our Saviour nor his Apostles take the least notice of it; yea doth not our Saviour himself affirm of the word that then was among the Jews, that ⟨p. 317⟩not [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] of it, should pass away or perish, where let not the points but the Consonants themselves with their Apices be intended or alluded unto in that expression; yet of that word which was translated by the Seventy, according to this hypothesis, and which assuredly they then had if ever, not only letters and Tittles, but words, and that many, are concluded to be lost. But that no Jew believes the figment we are in the consideration of, I could say, credat Apella.
Sect. 5. It is well knowne that the Translation of the Seventy, if it have the Originall pretended, and which alone makes it considerable, was made and finished 300 years or nere thereabout, before the Incarnation of our Saviour, that was, in that time and season wherein the Oracles of God were committed to the Jewes whilest that Church and people were the only people of God, accepted with him, designed by him keepers of his Word for the use of the whole Church of Christ to come, as the great and blessed foundation of truth. A time when there was an Authentique Copy of the whole Scripture, as the Rule of all others kept in the Temple; now can it be once imagined that there should be at that time such notorious varieties in the Copies of the Scripture through the negligence of that Church, & yet afterwards neither our Saviour nor his Apostles take the least notice of it; yea doth not our Saviour himselfe affirme of the word that thē was amōg the Jews, that ⟨p. 317⟩