A90280:392
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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If moreover the ability be granted, what security have we of their principles and honesty. Cardinal Ximenius ⟨p. 340⟩in his preface to the edition of the Complutensian Bibles, tells us, (that which is most true, if the Translation we have be theirs) that on sundry accounts they took liberty in Translating according to their own mind; & thence conclude, Unde Translatio septuaginta duum, quandeque est superflua, quandoque diminuta; it is sometimes superfluous, sometimes wanting; but suppose all these uncertainties might be overlooked, yet the intolerable Corruptions, that (as it is on all hands confessed) have crept into the translation, makes it altogether useless as to the end we are enquiring after; this Hierome in his Epistle to Chromat: at large declares, and shows from thence the necessity of a new Translation. Yea Bellarmine himself says, that though he believes the Translation of the Septuagint to be still extant, yet it is so corrupt and vitiated, that it plainly appears to be another, lib. 2, de Verbo Dei, Cap. 6.
If moreover the ability be granted, what security have we of their principles and honesty. Cardinall Ximenius ⟨p. 340⟩in his preface to the edition of the Complutensian Bibles, tells us, (that which is most true, if the Translation we have be theirs) that on sundry accounts they took liberty in Translating according to their own mind; & thence conclude, Unde Translatio septuaginta duum, quandeque est superflua, quandoque diminuta; it is sometimes superfluous, sometimes wanting; but suppose all these uncertainties might be overlooked, yet the intollerable Corruptions, that (as it is on all hands confessed) have crept into the translation, makes it altogether uselesse as to the end we are enquiring after; this Hierome in his Epistle to Chromat: at large declares, and shewes from thence the necessity of a new Translation. Yea Bellarmine himselfe sayes, that though he believes the Translation of the Septuagint to be still extant, yet it is so corrupt and vitiated, that it plainly appeares to be another, lib. 2, de Verbo Dei, Cap. 6.