 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1863 - 448 Seiten
...Hooker declares, "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." What then are we to do with the prophecies to which I have referred ? The literal meaning, is evident.... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1863 - 454 Seiten
...Hooker declares, "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." What then are we to do with the prophecies to which I have referred? The literal meaning is evident.... | |
 | William Niven - 1864 - 362 Seiten
...influential, and the most inveterate heretic in Protestant Christendom. LECTURE VI. CImtal Subscription. " There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth... | |
 | John Cox Boyce - 1864 - 416 Seiten
...loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-day ?" nothing more than Eastern metaphor was alluded to ? No. "Where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." I quote the following truthful and pertinent remarks,* which will serve as well to remind you again... | |
 | John Cox Boyce - 1864 - 418 Seiten
...loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-day ?" nothing more than Eastern metaphor was alluded to? No. " Where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." I quote the following truthful and pertinent remarks,* which will serve as well to remind yon again... | |
 | William Harrison - 1864 - 244 Seiten
...proportion of error, if that sentiment of Hooker, respecting the exposition of Scripture, be correct, " where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." It was its practical import and comfort—not any deep or abstract reading connected with it—which... | |
 | 1864 - 578 Seiten
...words reminds us of the saying Of the "judicious Hooker"—"There is nothing more dangerous than the licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy Jotb. or would do the substance of metals; maketli of any thing what it listeth, md bringeth in the... | |
 | Richard Ingham - 1864 - 650 Seiten
...interpretation are the following :— HOOKER.—"I hold for a most infallible rule in expositions of Scripture, that where a literal construction will...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, niaketh of anything what it liatetb, and bringeth... | |
 | Richard Ingham - 1865 - 654 Seiten
...for a most infallible rule in expositions of Scripture, that where a literal construction will staud, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst....deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth... | |
 | John Cumming - 1865 - 378 Seiten
...Bclesiastical Polity, says, " I hold it as an infallible rule of exposition of the sacred Scriptures, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." And Professor Stuart, a very learned American theologian, says, " It is one of the plainest and most... | |
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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... 
