This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...your own. For this purpose you must read the Scriptures with attention and study, and acquire a perfect acquaintance with their figurative modes of speech. In these studies, concordances will, I am sure, afford you the greatest aid and information; and you have full liberty to use them. Non prius, saysGaussen, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...your own. For this purpose you must read the Scriptures with attention and study, and acquire a perfect acquaintance with their figurative modes of speech. In these studies, concordances will, I am sure, afford you the greatest aid and information; and you have full liberty to use them. Non prius, saysGaussen, commentatores adeat, qnam ipsi aquaha?rcat. The best are Kircher, in Greek, Stephen on the Greek Testament, Brixianus's Hebrew Dictionary, and Concordantia? Biblical majores; these are all works of considerable merit. IV. After doing in this way whatever you can, recourse may then be had to commentators. The princ;r-al fault of most expositors is, that they have not expounded the Scriptures according to their genuine sense. This is owing to their ignorance of the design the sacred writers had in view, and to their entrance on the work prejudiced by religious systems. They Ministers are not sufiisiently aware how much early and peculiar opinions prejudice their minds in reading and expounding the Scriptures. If the Methodists, for instance, discuss the Resurrection of Lazarus, after the usual observations on the afflictions of good men; on the delay, the tears, and prayers of Jesus; and that he permake the faithful, in the Old Testament, speak a? though they had all the light of the Christian Church; and as though they had perfectlv understood our theological disputations. When the word just or righteousness occurs in the Psalms, they doubt not but David formed this miracle as the final evidence of his mission for the salvation or destruction of the Jewish Rulers, he would improve the subject solely with a view to the conversion of those who are dead in trespasses and sins. Believing the freedom of the human will to be, in some sort, restored by t...
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