 | Jesus Christ - 1843 - 498 Seiten
...judicious Hooker, in a well-known passage, says, " Hold it for a most infallible rule, in exposition of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction...the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing," he continues, " more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1843 - 348 Seiten
...ages and generations. This last has been accurately defined by a man of God of no common mind, as a " licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning...alchymy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, making of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." 1 The symbolical... | |
 | Peter Spencer - 1844 - 44 Seiten
...heterodoxy, but only used that means of interpretation which has always been esteemed in our church, viz. that " where a literal construction will stand, the...farthest from the letter is commonly the worst."* We must first go back to the last moments of the aged Jacob, when, full of the spirit of prophecy,... | |
 | Henry Browne - 1844 - 728 Seiten
...prefigure," has had its results in a grievous tampering with the Word of God, an unbridled exercise of that " licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do that of metals, making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth hi the end all truth to nothing'."... | |
 | Henry Browne - 1844 - 732 Seiten
...prefigure," has had its results in a grievous tampering with the Word of God, an unbridled exereise of that " licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do that of metals, making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing 1... | |
 | J. T. Bannister - 1844 - 650 Seiten
...the literal interpretation of prophecy, and adopted the principle laid down by the judicious Hooker, that " where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst," the expectation is rising that God's ancient people the Jews will shortly be gathered from the four... | |
 | William Wall - 1844 - 636 Seiten
...extremity: and says on that account, ' I • hold it for a most infallible rale in expositions of • sabred Scripture, that where a literal construction • will stand, the farthest from the letter is com• monly the worst. - To hide the general con' sent of antiquity agreeing in the literal interpre•... | |
 | Christopher Bethell - 1845 - 374 Seiten
...is a dangerous experiment to tamper with its literal construction. "There is nothing," says Hooker, "more dangerous than this licentious and deluding...the substance of metals, maketh of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." 3 Archbishop Laurence. CHAPTER VIII. THE THEORY... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1845 - 598 Seiten
...says the chief of English theologians, "that where a literal construction will stand, the furthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding act, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do of the substance of metals, making... | |
 | Abner William Brown - 1846 - 316 Seiten
...the other should not be overlooked. " A most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture is, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." m Ought we not to expect in the religion of a child, something peculiarly lovely ? and should not the... | |
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of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would... 
