 | 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...EXPOSITORS OF SCRIPTCRE. HOOKER, in his Ecclesiastical Polity, says, " I hold it for a most infallihle rule, in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and deluding art, which... | |
 | 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...only mean, That unless a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions...sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction w3t Btand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than... | |
 | 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...only mean, That unless a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions...sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction win stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than... | |
 | 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 886
...only mean, that unless a man he born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven. I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of Sacred Scripture, that, where a literal construetion will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, th;it where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than ihi- licentious and deluding art, which changcth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...it may be ii. iiir ought to be followed ; this accords with the well known passage in Hooker, I hold for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred...Scripture, that where a literal construction will ttand, thefurthett from the letter is commonly -the wortt." To the Editor of the Remembrancer. Sir,... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...mean, • That unless a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions...that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious... | |
 | James Walker (bp. of Edinburgh.) - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...all times a suspicious and dangerous expedient. " I hold it," says a writer of the highest authority, "for a most infallible " rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that " where the literal construction will stand, " the farthest from the latter is commonly " the worst. There... | |
 | George Peck - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 160
...rule in expositions of sac. ,id scripture, that, where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing...dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do the substance of metals, making- of any thing... | |
 | George Peck - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 166
...rule in expositions of sac ed scripture, that, where a literal construction will stand, thu farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this lir centious and deluding art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would do the... | |
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I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. 
