 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1803 - 464 pages
...ancient productions is the of the anci- , 1-1 em inter- less to be regretted, as we know, with certainty, their vast inferiority to the expositions of the holy...scripture ; the one obvious and literal, the other bidden and mysterious, which lay concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter. The former... | |
 | Benjamin Seth Youngs - Second Advent - 1810 - 672 pages
...the scriptures. • This was, " that 4 scripture bud a dvukl* write, the one (/faioM and lit' eral, the other hidden and mysterious, which lay ' concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward _ ' letter." 10. " The former they treated with the utmost neglect, and turned the whole force of their... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Bibliography - 1811 - 494 pages
...the name of an able and judicious interpreter of the facred text. They all attributed a double fenff to the words of Scripture ; the one obvious and literal, the other hidden and myfterious, which lay concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter. The former they... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...scripture has a double sense, the one obvious and literal, the other hidden and mysterious, which lies concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter. The former they treat with the utmost neglect, and turn the whole force of their genius (such as it is) to the latter.... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...scripture has a double sense, the one obvious and literal, the other hidden and mysterious, which lies concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter. The former they treat with the utmost neglect, and turn the whole force of their genius (such as it is) to the latter.... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1826 - 442 pages
...appeared in succeeding times. Among the persons already mentioned, none deserved the name, of an able and judicious interpreter of the sacred, text. They...turned the whole force of their genius and application te unfold the latter ; or, in other words, they were «*«/«i wore studious to darken the Scriptures... | |
 | Samuel Noble - Bible - 1828 - 536 pages
...not for " their order and method :" and of these distinguished lights of the church he says, that " they all attributed a double sense to the words of...concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter."f Proceeding to the third century, and commemorating the pains then taken by some to multiply... | |
 | 1792 - 614 pages
..." that fcripture had a double fenfe, the ore obvious and literal, the other hidden and myfterious, which lay concealed, as it were, under the veil of...the outward letter. The former they treated with the utmoft negleft, and turned the whole force of their genius and application to unfold the latter ; or,... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...— Compare with No. 34. in this Chapter. 48. " They all (ie all the fathers of the second century) attributed a double sense to the words of Scripture,...The former they treated with the utmost neglect," &c. — Ibid. 186. 49. " God also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter... | |
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1842 - 470 pages
...Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch. And concerning these distinguished luminaries in the Church, he says : "They all attributed a double sense to the words of...their genius and application to unfold the latter." (Cent. II. part 2, chap. iii. § 4, 5.) Among the Christian fathers of the third century, the name... | |
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They all attributed a double sense to the words of scripture ; the one obvious and literal, the other hidden and mysterious, which lay concealed, as it were, under the veil of the outward letter. 
