History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times: Together with the Process of Historical Proof : Or, a Concise Account of the Means by which the Genuineness of Ancient Literature Generally, and the Authenticity of Historical Works Especially, are Ascertained, Including Incidental Remarks Upon the Relative Strength of the Evidence Usually Adduced in Behalf of the Holy ScripturesE. Howell, 1879 - 401 páginas |
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Página iii - ... be duly estimated. When exhibited in this light, it will be seen that the integrity of the records of the Christian faith is substantiated by evidence in a tenfold proportion more various, copious, and conclusive * than that which can be adduced in support of any other ancient writings. If, therefore, the question had no other importance belonging to it than what may attach to a purely literary inquiry, or if only the strict justice of the case were regarded, the authenticity of the Jewish !...
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Página 163 - They have no cursive writing; each letter is therefore painted, as it were, with the reed pen, and as the scribe finishes each he usually makes a horrible face and gives a triumphant flourish with his pen. Thus he goes on letter by letter, and before he gets to the end of the first line he is probably in a perspiration from his nervous apprehension of the importance of his undertaking. One page is a good day's work, and when he has done it he generally, if he is not too stiff, follows the custom...
Página 88 - I. Facts remote from our personal observation may be as certainly proved by evidence that is fallible in its kind, as by that which is not open to the possibility of error. By certain proof is here meant, not merely such as may be presented to the senses, or such as cannot be rendered obscure, even for a moment, by a perverse disputant; but such as when once understood, leaves no room for doubt in a sound mind.
Página 174 - Behold, my brethren, if it should happen that the end of this ancient book should be torn off and lost, together with the writer's subscription and termination ; it was written at the end of it, thus ; viz. that : this book was written at Orrhoa, a city of Mesopotamia, by the hand of a man named Jacob, in the year seven hundred and twenty-three ; in the month Tishrin the latter it was completed.
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Página 175 - ... written at Orrhoa*, a city of Mesopotamia, by the hands of a man named Jacob, in the year seven hundred and twenty-three in the month Tishrin the Latter it was completed. And agreeably to what was written there, I have written also here, without addition. And what is here, I wrote in the year one thousand and three hundred and ninety-eight of the era of the Greeks.