Elementary Principles of Interpretation
by Johann August Ernesti (9781459069374)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Fathers, and was echoed by many of the Romish doctors, viz. that some passages of Scripture have no literal sense (a), is dangerous beyond description. I presume they meant to affirm this of those passages which they did not understand. Such a sentiment has been recently defended by Wittius on the Proverbs of Solomon; and Thomas Woolston, taking advantage of this, has converted the narrations of our Saviour's miracles into mere allegories (b.) v (a) By literal sense here, Ernesti means a sense not allegorical or mystical; for to these literal is here opposed, and not to tropical, as it commonly is. There are a multitude of passages in Scripture, which have only a tropical meaning, and which, nevertheless, are neither allegorical nor mystical. (b) This shews how dangerous it is, to set the adversaries of religion an example of perverting the interpretation of the Scriptures. 27. The sense of words depends on the usus loquendi. This must be the case, because the sense of words is conventional and regulated wholly by usage. Usage then being understood, the sense of words is of course understood. . 'V 28. Usus loquendi determined in a variety of ivays. To determine it respect must be had to time (a), religion (b), sect, education, common life (c), and civil affairs (e); all of which have influence on an author's language, and character- .- ize it. For the same word is employed in one sense respecting the things of common life; in another, respecting the things of religion; in another still in the schools of philosophy, and even these are not always agreed in the use of words. (Morus, p. 48. XII?XIII.) () The ancient and modern sense of many words differs. (4) Victim, saerifice, law, etc., in the Old Testament, are often employed in a sense which differs from that ...

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