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The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer
The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer Author:Bela Bates Edwards Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was first advanced by Knorr of Rosenroth, and has received the approbation of several eminent men. This pious statesman, who was deeply initiated into Jewish mys... more »ticism, and is known also as a writer of hymns, broaches the opinion in the 3d part of his apparatus in libr. Sonar in the pref. $ 2. that the petitions of the Lord's prayer represent, according to the successive series of the cabbalistic emanation, the four worlds, mundus aziluticus, beriathicus, ieziraticus and asia; in which he received the assent of several learned men and even of the great and sober Btiddasus. The matter became a subject of zealous controversy in which the opposite view was maintained particularly by Gotel. Wernsdorf in his yindiciis orationis domin. Vit. 1708, and in the Disputation of Schrader : oral, domini- cae historice et dogmatice proposita precipue auteni judaismo opposita. Helm. 1710. IV. Contents and arrangement of the Prayer. The pregnant fullness of its contents is that set forth in the nervous language of Tertullian de orat. c. 7. brevitas ista— magna? ac beats interpr-jtationis substantia fulta est, quantumque substringitur verb is, untum diffunditur sensibus, neque enim propria tantum orationis officia complexa est, venerationem dei, aut hominis petitionern, sed omnem paene sermonem domini, omnem commemorationem disciplinae, ut revera in oratione breviarium tolius evangelii comprehendatur. It will be impossible, however, to form an adequate conception of the profound meaning of this prayer without presupposing the correctness of the hermeneutical rule which I have already laid down,1 viz. that in interpreting the words of Christ we are not barely to think of the sense which was attached to them by his immediate hearers, but are rather to seek forthat which he connected with them h...« less