Sacred Hermeneutics Developed and Applied - Including a History of Biblical Interpretation #249872

The following work is intended to complete the plan which the writer proposed, when publishing his Lectures on Biblical Criticism. Having prepared the way for the interpretation of the sacred volume by describing the principles on which the text is adjusted, it remained for him to unfold the general rules that should guide the Biblical expositor in ascertaining and presenting the true meaning. Such a system of Hermeneutics has accord ingly been attempted. The fundamental principles, con stituting the theory of interpretation, have been laid down and exemplified. As it would have been comparatively useless to state naked precepts apart from the mode in which they should be applied in exegesis, numerous ex amples are given, which may lead the inquiring student to a right apprehension of the extensive operation of a few hermeneutical laws.