A90280:385
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.
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and seeing it hath not lain under any peculiar care and merciful providence of God, whether innumerable other faults and Errors, not to be discovered by any variety of Copies, as it is happened with the Septuagint, may not be got into it who call tell. Of these and the like things we shall have a fuller account when the Babylonia of Buxtorfe the Father, (promised some while since by the Son to be published, Vindic. veritat. Heb. p. 2. chap. 10. pag. 337; and as we are informed by the learned Annotator on this paraphrase in his Preface in the Appendix, lately sent to the publishers of this Bible (shall be put out; so that we ⟨p. 335⟩have not as yet arrived at the remedy provided for the supposed distemper.
and seeing it hath not laine under any peculiar care and mercifull providence of God, whether innumerable other faults and Errours, not to be discovered by any variety of Copies, as it is happened with the Septuagint, may not be got into it who call tell. Of these and the like things we shall have a fuller account when the Babylonia of Buxtorfe the Father, (promised some while since by the Sonne to be published, Vindic. veritat. Heb. p. 2. chap. 10. pag. 337; and as we are informed by the learned Annotator on this paraphrase in his Preface in the Appendix, lately sent to the publishers of this Bible (shall be put out; so that we ⟨p. 335⟩have not as yet arrived at the remedy provided for the supposed distemper.
Sect. 12. Of the vulgar latin, its uncertain Original, its Corruptions and Barbarisms, its abuse, so much hath been spoken, and by so many already, that it were to no purpose to repeat it over again: For my part I esteem it much the best in the whole Collection exhibited unto us, excepting the Interlineary of Arias; but not to be compared to sundry modern Translations, and very unfit to yield the relief sought after.
Sect. 12. Of the vulgar latine, its uncertaine Originall, its Corruptions and Barbarismes, its abuse, so much hath been spoken, and by so many already, that it were to no purpose to repeat it over againe: For my part I esteem it much the best in the whole Collection exhibited unto us, excepting the Interlineary of Arias; but not to be compared to sundry moderne Translations, and very unfit to yeeld the reliefe sought after.