Prof. Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) Essays on the Interpretation of Scripture (1860)

(On Romans 13:11)
"In the New Testament we find no exhortation grounded on the shortness of life. It seems as if the end of life had no practical importance for the first believers, because it would surely be anticipated by the day of the Lord" (Rom. xiii.11)

(On Hermeneutics | 'Double Fulfillment' Theory)
'First, it may be laid down that Scripture has one meaning, -the meaning which it had to the mind of the prophet or evangelist who first uttered or wrote to the hearers or readers who first received it.'

'Scripture, like other books, has one meaning, which is to be gathered from itself, without reference to the adaptations of fathers or divines, and without regard to a priori notions about its nature and origin.'

'The office of the interpreter is not to add another [interpretation], but to recover the original one : the meaning, that is, of the words as they struck on the ears or flashed before the eyes of those who first heard and read them.' (Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture, § i. 3, 4.)

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30 Sep 2003

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04:32:18

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where did prof. benjamin jowett lived what did he all the time

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01 Oct 2003

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20:10:04

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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

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05 Nov 2003

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13:11:21

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My name is Benjamin Jowett. I'm the master of Balliol College. Whatever is knowledge I know it; and what I don't know isn't knowledge.

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31 Dec 2003

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13:33:18

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interpret the Bible like any other book

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03 Feb 2004

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16:57:03

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them

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23 Feb 2004

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08:31:52

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Solution to Rev. l3:l8 is NEBEKEDNESSER, that is, the Greek letters: Nu (50) + Eta (8) + Beta (2) + Eta (8) + Kappa (20) + Eta (8) + Dela (4) + Nu (50) + Eta (8) + Sigma (200) + Sigma (200) + Eta (8) + Rho (l00) = 666. The variant 6l6 is: Kaisar Theos (Lord God). My reasons for these solutions are: l) The Jewish HOUSE OF JESUS (See SEPTUAGINT, Ezra 2:36) was captive/exiled in 6th century b.c. Babylon. 2) The Book of Daniel 4:l6 mentions that God gave Nebuchadnezzer the mind of a beast for refusing to acknowledge the Lordship of the King of Heaven. 3) The 2nd century b.c. apocryphal work titled JUDITH refers variously to Nebuchadnezzer as: "Lord of the whole world", "Who is God except Nebuchadnezzer", "All nations shall call upon Nebuchadnezzer as God." 4) The lst century a.d. New Testament letter titled FIRST PETER at 5:l3 alludes to the Jewish HOUSE OF JESUS in the following covert and clandestine manner: "Greetings from her who dwells in Babylon . . ." (The New English Bible). 5) Midrash Rabbah Ecclesiastes mentions that the Roman emperor Trajan was "A descendant of Nebuchadnezzer" (presumably, in a typological sense!). 6) Midrash Rabbah Canticles refers to Rome as "ROME-BABYLON." 7) The spelling for Nebuchadnezzer in THE SEPTUAGINT dates from the 2nd century b.c. at the earliest while the Jewish HOUSE OF JESUS was in 6th century b.c. Babylon. [Walter C. Cambra, A.A.,B.A.,B.A.,M.A.,(FRC)(MAFA)]

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27 Feb 2004

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10:04:51

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"My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you." Benjamin Jowett Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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26 Mar 2004

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12:33:27

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You laugh at my pope Jowett, but really I know of nobody so clever. (James Lonsdale to his mother)

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26 Mar 2004

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12:35:13

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But we want to know his faults--that is probably the most interesting part of him. (Benjamin Jowett to Lady Tavistock, 1885)

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22 May 2004

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10:49:21

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Quoted by ARthur John Gossip in The Inerpreters Bible, Volume 8, page 751, "As a measure of the value of such disputes, which above all other interests seem to have for a time the power of absorbing men’s minds and rousing their passions, we may carry our thoughts onward to the invisible world, and there behold, as in a glass, the great theological teachers of past ages, who have anathematized each other in their lives, resting together in the communion of the same Lord." (Quoted from Theological Writings, ed. Lewis Campbell (John Murray, 1902), page 94.

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25 Oct 2004

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10:38:52

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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”(Benjamin Jowett)

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12 Dec 2004

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12:36:31

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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow over Balliol Hall, As though the Cosmos were controlled By Dr. Jowett, after all . . . Ronald Knox

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17 Dec 2004

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18:01:54

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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

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17 Dec 2004

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18:02:18

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book. ...

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17 Dec 2004

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18:03:18

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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.