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A Vindication of the Doctrine of Scripture, and of the Primitive Faith
A Vindication of the Doctrine of Scripture and of the Primitive Faith Author:John Jamieson 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: CHAP. II. That Pbilo did not borrow from Plato, in perfouifying tie Logos ( and that Plato viai not tie Inventor of tin's Doc- trine, " DUTwhat avails," ma... more »y it be faid, " the teftimony of " Philo, as it is known that he was tinftured with Pla- " tonic philofophy ?" Indeed, this is the fum of Dr P's objection. " It has been obferved that after the tranfla- " tion of the Old Teftament into Greek,—in confequence " of which the Jewifh religion became better known to " the Greeks, and efpecially to the philofophers of Alexan- " dria, the more learned of the Jews had recourfe to an " allegorical method of interpreting what they found to be " mod objected to in their facred writings, and by this " means pretended to find in the books of Moles, and the " Prophets, all the great principles of the Greek philofo- " phy, and efpecially that of Plato which at that time was " moft in vogue. Jn this method of interpreting Scripture, " Philo, a learned Jew of Alexandria, far excelled all who " h:id gone before him ." This objection hath been formerly made, and hath been fully anfwered by different writers, particularly by the learned Bp. Kidderf. But it is common with the difci- ples of Socinus to reply to the anfwers given to their ob- jeŁtions, merely by bringing them forth anew, with as much form and importance, as if they had never made their appearance before. But till they fliew the infufficiency of anfwers already given, little more is requifite than, after their own example, although with far more propriety, to give the fubftance of what hath been advanced by former writers. According to an ordinary rule, Affirmantiincum- lit Hift Cor. vol. i. p. 33. f D; .iionftr.ition, 1'ari iii. p. m. 119. bit probatio. But there is not a (hadow of evidence offered in fupport of t...« less