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. 1869 Excerpt: ...afterwards came to be put into writing; and those books openly contain all the secret things and mysteries which are veiled in the literal Law. These secret Horn.iii.2. things, as Origen1 perceives, are called by St. Paul "the oracles of God," giving life to the Law; without which lifegiving spirit the Law is dead. ...
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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. 1869 Excerpt: ...afterwards came to be put into writing; and those books openly contain all the secret things and mysteries which are veiled in the literal Law. These secret Horn.iii.2. things, as Origen1 perceives, are called by St. Paul "the oracles of God," giving life to the Law; without which lifegiving spirit the Law is dead. That explanation and spiritual sense of the whole literal Law, which Moses, as we have said, received from God, was what we call the Anagogic sense. For as there is with us a fourfold method of explaining the Bible, and a fourfold sense, namely, the Literal, Mystical and Allegorical, Tropological, and Anagogical; so was it with the Hebrews. But the Cabala follows the Anagogic sense,2 which was delivered to Moses from the mouth of God, and which is the loftier and more divine; drawing and leading us up from earthly to heavenly things; from the sensible to the intellectual; from things temporal to things eternal, from what is lowest to what is highest, from the human to the divine, from the bodily to the spiritual. The Jews pursue what is earthly, sensible, temporal, low, human, corporeal; all which things are in "the letter that 2 Cor. iii. killeth." They that are called to the Spirit of Christ, pursue 6' what is heavenly, intellectual, eternal, above, divine, spiritual; in a word, that which was revealed by God to Moses, and by Moses also delivered to the seventy chosen ones: and this is the heavenly and exalted sense. To this divine truth men are called more closely in Christ; that they may set their affections higher, and live better, than the Jews: and this is the Anagogic sense. Towards this sense Dionysius writes1 that they were guides, who learnt the more sacred meaning of the holy tabernacle; whom we may understand to h...
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