Critical Notes on Some Passages of Scripture: Comparing Them with the Most Ancient Versions, and Restoring Them to Their Original Reading, or True Sense
Critical Notes on Some Passages of Scripture: Comparing Them with the Most Ancient Versions, and Restoring Them to Their Original Reading, or True Sense
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. 1747 Excerpt: ...doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Here, as Grotius observes, is a most excellent preparation, and introduction, to the true spirit of the Gospel, by drawing our principal attention off, from external and circumstantial things, and (as Cocceius very well ...
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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. 1747 Excerpt: ...doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Here, as Grotius observes, is a most excellent preparation, and introduction, to the true spirit of the Gospel, by drawing our principal attention off, from external and circumstantial things, and (as Cocceius very well adds) from all traditions and precepts of men, to the practice of sincere piety to God, and justice and beneficence to our neighbour. There is indeed a small variation from the text in the Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgat, but alvii. 15. hardly hardly worth observing, for instead of He hath /hewed, they read TJHN and rendered / have Jhewed or will Jhew and thereby made it ambiguous, whether these are immediately the words of God or his prophets; the present reading, being the clearer, seems rather the better. And toflEJO being a noun should be rendered, not justly, but justice, tho' it must be consest without any material difference, for the illustration of the sense of this divine and ever memorable declaration. He hath strewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble in walking with thy God? John Xx. 30, 31. And many other stgns, truly, did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.--But these are written, that ye might believe, that Jejus is the Christ, the Jon of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name. Grotius, in his note on this place, declares himself to be clearly of opinion, that here St. John concluded his Gospel: But as the last chapter of Deuteronomy, and the last of Joshua were added by the Hebrew Sanhedrin; so was the following xxia chapter here annexed by the church of Ephesus. In confirmation...
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