 | 1854 - 550 pages
...departed from. " I hold it," says he, " for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, making of anything what it listeth, and bringeth,... | |
 | Daniel Thompson Taylor - 1855 - 442 pages
...Says Hooker : " I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and delusive than that art, which changes the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would the substance... | |
 | Burgon John William - 1855 - 504 pages
...I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture," (says our wise Hooker,) " that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." And he adds, that, — " Of all the ancients, there is not one to be named, that ever did otherwise... | |
 | William Henry Hicks - 1856 - 80 pages
...inexperienced, and teach them that it is a dangerous experiment to tamper with its literal construction. " There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious...doth or would do the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing."2 1 Abp. Laurence. * Hooker.... | |
 | Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1856 - 324 pages
...wickedness cannot be otherwise than wretched. We cannot conceive, I say, that there is anything in 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 anything... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester.) - 1856 - 284 pages
...\ovrpov (see notes on Eph. v. 26), it may be enough to say, in the words of Hooker on this subject, that ' where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst,' Ecd, Pol. v. 59. i ; вее John iii. 5, the reif, in Waterland, Works, Vol. iv. p. 428, and сотр.... | |
 | Philip Freeman - 1857 - 246 pages
...against him. " I hold it," says he, " for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchemy doth or would the substance of metals, making of everything what it listeth, and bringing in... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...some manifest and indisputable reason why they should not. Dr. Pusey interprets on Hooker's canon : " Where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." The words of institution should be taken in their literal sense. To say that they cannot be, is to... | |
 | William De Burgh - 1858 - 1060 pages
...his well-known saying — " 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" — will have no hesitation in giving the preference to the opinion of the ancient Jewish commentators,... | |
 | William Cooke - 1858 - 220 pages
...judicious Hooker, "I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst." The Roman translation, " Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," is not farther from 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. 
