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Biblical Notes and Queries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Notes and Queries write by Anonymous. This book was released on 2013-09. Biblical Notes and Queries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...suitable to his hearers. Hence no contradictions are found, in a case in which, although by means of different writings, we yet reach the same heavenly fatherland.' Principles of Criticism and Interpretation. 1) The earlier manuscript, ca'trris paribus, is more likely to be right thau the later, because every copying i liable to new errors.--Db Hey: Lecture in Divinity, vol. i. p. 48. 2) A reading contradictory to a doctrine which the same apostle has delivered in another passage is to be regarded as spurious, because contradictions are improbable in an accurate writer, and impossible in one who is divinely inspired.--J. D. Michaelis: Introduction to the ATew Testament, vol. i. p. 330. 3) Variety of reading is not of slight consideration: for, although it be demonstrably true that all things necessary to faith and good manners are preserved from alteration and corruption, because they are of things necessaiy, and they could not be necessary unless they were delivered to us--God, in his goodness and his i' ustice, having obliged himself to preserve that which he lath bound us to observe and keep--yet in other things which God hath not bound himself so punctually to preserve, in these things, since every variety of reading is crept in, every reading takes away a degree of certainty from any proposition derivative from those places so read, and if some copies, especially if they be public mid notable, omit a verse or a title, every argument from such a title or verse loses much of its strength and reputation.--Bishop Taylor: Lib. of Pro ph. sect. iii. 4. 4) When different reasons for the meaning of a word oppose each other, greater weight ought to be given to grammatical thau to dogmatical reasons; liecaii.se a proposition may be strictly...