History of Interpretation: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year MDCCCLXXXV on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton |
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... sometimes by usurping self - interest , sometimes by ignorant superstition . They did but weaken the building , and deform the original design . They have crumbled under the hands of time , or have been demolished by hostile forces ...
... sometimes by usurping self - interest , sometimes by ignorant superstition . They did but weaken the building , and deform the original design . They have crumbled under the hands of time , or have been demolished by hostile forces ...
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... sometimes painfully beside the mark , but we get an insight into the erroneous methods by which he was led astray when we find him endorsing with warm praise the seven rules of Tichonius . Those rules are as baseless as Philo's , and ...
... sometimes painfully beside the mark , but we get an insight into the erroneous methods by which he was led astray when we find him endorsing with warm praise the seven rules of Tichonius . Those rules are as baseless as Philo's , and ...
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... sometimes to the whole Church , sometimes to a part of it . The fifth rule suggests a sort of kabbalism of numbers . The sixth rule " About Recapitulation , " professes to account harmonistically for events which are related out of ...
... sometimes to the whole Church , sometimes to a part of it . The fifth rule suggests a sort of kabbalism of numbers . The sixth rule " About Recapitulation , " professes to account harmonistically for events which are related out of ...
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... sometimes trivial , sometimes imperfect , sometimes morally erroneous . In such cases they got rid of the letter by distorting it into the expression of some sentiment of their own by the aid of allegory . What we should rather do is ...
... sometimes trivial , sometimes imperfect , sometimes morally erroneous . In such cases they got rid of the letter by distorting it into the expression of some sentiment of their own by the aid of allegory . What we should rather do is ...
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... sometimes hyperbolical ( ND ) , as in Deut . i . 28 . דברה תורה לשון : He expressed the rule thus 2. The latter seems to be the Greek word Baid , and the rule means that sometimes a passage is not literally true . 3 Aqiba confessed to ...
... sometimes hyperbolical ( ND ) , as in Deut . i . 28 . דברה תורה לשון : He expressed the rule thus 2. The latter seems to be the Greek word Baid , and the rule means that sometimes a passage is not literally true . 3 Aqiba confessed to ...
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Page xxxviii - Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
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Page 286 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
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Page 30 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 289 - ... to edify the meanest Christian, who desires to walk in the spirit, and not in the letter of human trust, for all the number of voices that can be there made; no, though Harry the Seventh himself there, with all his liege tombs about him, should lend them voices from the dead to swell their number.
Page 255 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.