Biblical Hermeneutics: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old and New Testaments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

QUALIFICATIONS Hl!:QUIRED. 23 CHAPTER II. QUALIFICATIONS OF AN INTERPRETER. r ~ order to be a capable' fwd eOrn~ct. i lIterpreter of the lIol y Scriptures, ODe needs a variety of qualificatious, hoth natural and acquired. For though a large j)roportiull of the sacred volume is suffkiently simple for the child to understand, a.nd the common people and the unlearned may nud on every page much that is profitable for instruction in righteousness, there is also mudl that requires, for its proper apprehension and exposition, the noblest powers of intellect and the most ample learning. The seyeral qualifications of a competent inteq)rctcl' may be classified as lntel· 10ctual, Educational, and SpirituaJ. The first are largely native to the soul j th~ second arc acquired by study and research; the third tlla.y be regarded both as native alld acquired. I~T,t,;LL.l!;CTU AL Qt: ALl nCA1'lOSS. Pirst. of all, the interpreter of S"riptlll'(', and, indeed, of any ot.1H:~r book,

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CONTENTS; AND; AN ALYTIOAL OUTLINE; · ·; I~TRODVCT IO~; CHAPTER I; Preliminary; 1 IIermeneutics de5ncd, 17; 2 (ko~rnl nod Special Herrneneutics, 17; 8 Biblical or Sacrec Hermeneutics, 13; 01 Old and Sew TC:-;lIIment Hermeneu·; tics should not be separawd, 18; 5 Hermeneutics di~tin:;ui~hed from Intro·; duction, Criticism, and Exegesis, Ill; 6 Hermencutics both a scicnce and an; art, 20; 'I Necessity of Hermeneutics, 20, 21; 8 Rank nnd import'lnce of Hermoncutics; in Theological Science, 21, 22; CR:PTER II; Qualifications of an Interpreter; A Ilo-n:LLJ<:C1'UAL QIJ A['FICA 110X3:-; 1 A sound, well-balanced mind, 23; ~ Q'lick ~lId clear perception, ';la,; a Acuteness of intollect (Bengel aDd; Do Yette), 24; 4 Imagination allowed but colltrolled,; 24-; 6 Sober judgment, 25; 6 CorrecLlles~ nnd dclicncy of ta~t(), 25; 7 Right use of rea~o