Principles of Biblical [Or Rather New Testament] Interpretation, Tr. from the Institutio Interpretis, by C. H. Terrot
by Johann August Ernesti (9781150086588)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. OF MANUSCRIPTS, AND THEIR USE. I. It is universally allowed that the original copies of the sacred books have perished.4 For as to the boast of the Venetians, that they possessed the autograph of St. Mark, this upon examination was found to be totally false; and it appeared that in the same book were portions of another Latin manuscript, as is clearly shewn by a Turre, in a letter. to Jos. Blanchinus, (Evang. Blanchin. T. ii.) This is to be especially consulted by all, who wish for full information on this head." d For the Apostles themselves did not write, but only subscribed. 2 Thess. iii. 17 It is clear that even Paul, who was more highly educated than the other Apostles, could not with facility write Greek. See Semler's App. p. 32. Haenleins Einleitung, ii. p. 8, seq. ed. 2. The question here introduced by Ammon has little or nothing to do with that discussed by Ernesti in the text. That St. Paul frequently used the aid of an Amanuensis is clear; and the same is done by almost every man of weighty occupations and extensive correspondence, without bringing upon him the suspicion of inability to write. The internal evidence, and there is no other, would lead us to conclude, that as St. Paul declares, the salutation and signature, with his own hand to be the mark of authenticity in all the Epistles which were not autograph, therefore, when no such signature occurs, we ought to conclude the whole Epistle to have been autograph. Thus the Ep. to the Colossians, and the 2d to the Thessalonians, would appear to have been the only ones written by an amanuensis.] ' See also Dubrowski on the ...

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