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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... AN APOLOGY FOR THE SEPTUAGINT. HE various and conflicting opinions which have so long prevailed amongst Christians, concerning this Greek version of the ancient Scriptures, must render an enquiry into its real rank and importance, amongst the most interesting topics of Biblical investigation. As the ...
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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... AN APOLOGY FOR THE SEPTUAGINT. HE various and conflicting opinions which have so long prevailed amongst Christians, concerning this Greek version of the ancient Scriptures, must render an enquiry into its real rank and importance, amongst the most interesting topics of Biblical investigation. As the entire phraseology of the New Testament is formed on the peculiar style of the LXX, as all our doctrinal terms are taken from its vocabulary, whilst by far the greater number of its quotations are transferred from its text; it becomes of the utmost moment to decide, whether the primitive Christians were right, or wrong, in their opinions concerning it, and whether we are warranted in maintaining opinions contrary to those, which were held by all the Christian Fathers, till the days of Jerome. In all matters of faith and doctrine, as well as of discipline, a temperate appeal to the sentiments of the primitive Church of the first three centuries, has hitherto been regarded, as a fair and legitimate mode of enquiry. The value of the writings of Bull, Pearson, Grabe, Waterland, Horsley, Lardner, &c. is chiefly to be estimated by such a standard. But on a matter of Scriptural and historical fact, like that of the universal reception of the Septuagint Version, the usage and authority of the primitive Church become absolute and paramount. As a member of the Church of England, honestly attached to the Articles and Liturgy, I do not feel myself called upon to make any apology for this avowal of opinion. I have yet to learn, that I am departing from any decision, which she has made on the subject of this enquiry. Individuals in her communion have taken different sides in the argument, but these opinions do not affect her ecclesiastical authority. "In...
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All Editions of An Apology for the Septuagint, in Which Its Claims to Biblical and Canonical Authority Are Briefly Stated and Vindicated: By E. W. Grinfield