A90280:379
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. 9. Whether the Syriac Translation be any fitter for this use, any one who shall be pleased to consider & weigh it, will easily discover. It seems indeed to have been made out of the Original, at least for some part of it; or that ⟨p. 326⟩the Translation of the 70 hath been in many things changed since this was made, which I rather suppose. But when, where, or by whom, it doth not appear; nor doth it in many things seem to have any respect at all unto the Hebrew; the note at the close of the Prophets I suppose to proceed rather from the Scribe of that Individual Copy, than the Translator; but that the Reader may see what hands it hath passed through, he may take it as its rendered by the learned Author of the Annotations on that Translation; Explicit Malachias sive libri 12 Prophetarum, quorum oratio perpetuò nobis adsit, Amen; precibúsque ipsorum, precibúsque omnium sanctorum, sodalium ipsorum praesertìm virginis, quae Deum peperit, omnium Sanctorum matris quae pro genere Adami intercedit, propitius sit Deus Lectori & Scriptori Peccatori, & omnibus sive verbo sive opere, ipsis participantibus; but this good Conclusion is as I suppose from the Scribe, the usual negligence of whom in his work is frequently Taxed in the collection of various readings, as pag. 8. & alibi.
Sect. 9. Whether the Syriack Translation be any fitter for this use, any one who shall be pleased to consider & weigh it, will easily discover. It seemes indeed to have been made out of the Originall, at least for some part of it; or that ⟨p. 326⟩the Translation of the 70 hath been in many things changed since this was made, which I rather suppose. But when, where, or by whom, it doth not appeare; nor doth it in many things seeme to have any respect at all unto the Hebrew; the note at the close of the Prophets I suppose to proceed rather from the Scribe of that Individuall Copy, than the Translatour; but that the Reader may see what hands it hath passed through, he may take it as its rendered by the learned Authour of the Annotations on that Translation; Explicit Malachias sive libri 12 Prophetarum, quorum oratio perpetuò nobis adsit, Amen; precibúsque ipsorum, precibúsque omnium sanctorum, sodalium ipsorum praesertìm virginis, quae Deum peperit, omnium Sanctorum matris quae pro genere Adami intercedit, propitius sit Deus Lectori & Scriptori Peccatori, & omnibus sive verbo sive opere, ipsis participantibus; but this good Conclusion is as I suppose from the Scribe, the usuall negligence of whom in his worke is frequently Taxed in the collection of various readings, as pag. 8. & alibi.