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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISSERTATION III. OF THE STYLE OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY, PARTICULARLY THE GOSPELS. - ITS PERSPICUITY DEFENDED AGAINST THE OBJECTIONS OF FATHER SIMON. From what has been evinced in the preceding discourse, it not improbably be concluded, that the style of holy writ, both of the New Testament and of the Old, of the historical books as well as of the prophetical and the argumentative must be generally obscure, and ol'ien ambiguous. So much, and with so great plausibility and acuteness, has been written by some learned men in proving this point, that were a person, before he ever read the Scriptures, either in the original or in a translation, to consider every topic they have employed, and to observe how much, in regard to the truth of such topics, is admitted by those who cannot entirely acquiesce in the conclusion, he would infallibly despair of reaping any instruction, that could be depended on, from the study of the Bible, and would be almost tempted to pronounce it altogether unprofitable. What can exceed the declarations to this purpose of the celebrated Father Simon, a very eminent critic, and probably the greatest oriental scholar of his age ? We ought, says he, to regard it as unquestionable, that the greater part of the Hebrew words are equivocal, and that their signification is entirely uncertain. For this reason, when a translator employs in his version the interpretation which he thinks the best, he cannot say absolutely that that interpretation expresses truly what is contained in the original. There is always ground to doubt whether the sense which he gives to the Hebrew words be the true sense, because there are other meanings which are equally probable. Again, f They the Protestants] do Hist. Crit. du V. T. liv. iii. ch. 2. On doit supposer com...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217625968 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217625967 |
| Weight | 1.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 476 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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