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In one thick Volume Octavo, handsomely bound in Cloir, SACRED HERMENEUTICS DEVELOPED AND APPLIED; |
A HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION,
EARLIEST OF THE FATHERS TO THE REFORMATION.
By the REV. SAMUEL DAVIDSON, LL.D.
Professor of Biblical Literature, Ecclesiastical History, and Oriental Languages, in the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester.
Chap. I. HERMENEUTICAL QUALIFICATIONS.
II. USE OF REASON IN THE EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE.
III. LIMITATIONS OF THE SENTIMENT, that the language of the Bible should be interpretec like that of other books.-Some peculiarities in Biblical Interpretation.
IV. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION.
V. HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION.
PATRISTIC PERIOD. Barnabas,
Hermas Clement of Rome-Ignatius-Polycarp-Justin Martyr-Clement of Alexan-
dria-Irenaeus-The Clementine Recognitions- Tertullian-Origen-Cyprian—The,
Tradition of the Alexandrian Church-The Tradition of the Latin Church-Gregory i
Thaumaturgus-Hippolytus-Eusebius-Athanasius-Ephraem the Syrian-Basil the
Great-Gregory of Nazianzum-Gregory of Nyssa-Diodorus-Chrysostom-Hilary
Ambrose Jerome Augustine-Tichonius-Theodoret-Cyril of Alexandria-Isi-
dore of Pelusium-Pelagius-Julian-Vincentius Lirinensis-Andreas-Cassiodorus—
Gregory the Great-General Estimate of the Fathers.
VI. HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN THE HIERARCHICAL PERIOD, or from
the beginning of the Seventh Century to the Reformation-Bede-Alcuin-Rhabanus
Maurus-Walafrid Strabo-Druthmar- Claudius-Ecumenius-Arethas-Notker-
Theophylact-Lanfranc-Nicetas-Peter Lombard-Enthymius Zigabenus - Ruper-
tus-Thomas Aquinas-Hugo de St. Caro-Albert-Bonaventura-Nicolaus de Lyra-
Gerson-John Wessel-John Huss-Paulus Burgensis-Laurentius Valla-James Fa-
ber Stapulensis-Erasmus-Review of the Second Period.
VII. SYSTEMS OF INTERPRETATION.-The Moral or Kantian-The Psychologico-Historical
-The Accommodation System-The Mythic- The Rationalistic The Pietist.
VII. THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION STATED AND EXEMPLIFIED.
APPLIED TO FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.
X. USE OF HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN INTERPRETATION.
XI. QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW-Introductory Formulas-
Conformity with the Originals-The purposes for which citations were made-Impor
tant Formulas-Supposed Instances of accommodation-Quotations classified-Their
connexion with Verbal Inspiration.
XII. ALLEGED CONTRADICTIONS OF SCRIPTURE.-Discrepancies between the OLD
TESTAMENT WRITERS-Discrepancies between the NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS
Discrepancies between the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS.
XIII. ANCIENT VERSIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND LEXICONS, AS SOURCES OF INTERPRE-
TATION.-Comprehending, 1. The Septuagint. 2. Vulgate. 3. Aquila, Symmachus, and
Theodotion. 4. Saadias. 5. The Arabic immediate Versions of the New Testament
in the London Polyglott. 6. The Targums. 7. Peshito. 8. The Commentaries of
Jarchi, Abenesfa, Kimchi, and Tanchum of Jerusalem; with the Lexicons of Abulwalid,
Judah ben Karish, David Kimchi, and Pagninus on the Old Testament. 9. The
Works of Scholiasts and early Glossographers, with the Commentaries and Catenae of
the Fathers on the New Testament.
XIV. COGNATE LANGUAGES AS SOURCES OF INTERPRETATION.-1. The Arabic 2.
The Syriac. 3. The Chaldee.
XV. USE OF GENERAL INFORMATION IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE.—
Comprehending, 1. General History. 2. Chronology. 3. Archaeology. 4. Geogra
phy. 5. Natural History. 6. Geology. 7. Medicine, &c.
XVI. Bibliographical Account of Hermeneutical Writers from the Reformation to the Presen Time, containing an analysis of their Works, with a critical estimate of their value. THREE INDICES.
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