Principles of Biblical Interpretation
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ISBN13: 9781150586453
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... the latter contains precepts as to the method of interpreting. For neither do all these observations concerning the classes, the signification and the nature of words, suffice to enable us to discover their proper application in any particular case; nor, on the other hand, can precepts respecting the proper method of investigating the sense, be certain or perspicuous, unless the nature and signification of words be previously ascertained. XII. There is also to be considered the material, as it were, on which the interpreter exercises his ingenuity, or which he uses in investigating the sense of his author. This consists in the books themselves which he interprets, and in the literary apparatus bearing any relation to them. These must therefore be treated of in a system of interpretation."1 m After the laws of hermeneutics, there are still many things requiring our attention, before we attempt the Interpretation of the N. T. as, 1, disquisitions concerning the authors and compilation of the N. T.; 2, concerning the canon; 3, concerning the copies, whether manuscript or printed; 4, concerning the versions. These inquiries have, in our age, acquired such an extent, as to form a separate branch, that of Introductions to the N. T. of which a brief account will be found in this work. XIII. This work, then, on the Principles of Interpretation, will be divided into three great divisions: of which the first part, as before noticed, will be divided into the contemplative and the preceptive: the second will treat of versions and commentaries: and the third, of the whole hermeneutical apparatus, and its legitimate application to the exegesis of Scripture. PART FIRST, SECTION' I. CONTEMPLATIVE. CHAPTER I. ON THE SIGNIFICATION OF WORDS. i I. To every...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150586453 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150586451 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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