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See also:ERNESTI, J . C. and by example, philologists greater than themselves, and of having kindled the See also:national See also:enthusiasm for See also:ancient learning. It is chiefly in See also:hermeneutics that Ernesti has any claim to See also:eminence as a theologian. But here his merits are distinguished, and, at the See also:period when his Institutio Interpretis N. T. was published (1761), almost See also:peculiar to himself. In it we find the principles of a See also:general See also:interpretation, formed without the assistance of any particular See also:philosophy, but consisting of observations and rules which, though already enunciated, and applied in the See also:criticism of the profane writers, had never rigorously been employed in biblical exegesis. He was, in fact, the founder of the grammatico-See also:historical school. He admits in the sacred writings as in the See also:classics only one acceptation, and that the grammatical, convertible into and the same with the logical and historical. Consequently he censures the See also:opinion of those who in the See also:illustration of the Scriptures refer everything to the See also:illumination of the See also:Holy Spirit, as well as that of others who, disregarding all knowledge of the See also:languages, would explain words by things. The " See also:analogy of faith," as a See also:rule of interpretation, he greatly limits, and teaches that it can never afford of itself the explanation.of words, but only determine the choice among their possible meanings. At the same See also:time he seems unconscious of any inconsistency between the See also:doctrine of the See also:inspiration of the See also:Bible as usually received and his principles of hermeneutics. Among his See also:works the more important are:—I. In classical literature: Initia doctrinae Solidioris (1736), many subsequent See also:editions; Initia rhetorica (1730); editions, mostly annotated, of See also:Xenophon's Memorabilia (1737), See also:Cicero (1737–1739), Suetonius (1748), See also:Tacitus (1752), the Clouds of See also:Aristophanes (1754), See also:Homer (1759-1764), See also:Callimachus (1761), See also:Polybius (1764), as well as of the Quaestura of Corradus, the See also:Greek See also:lexicon of Hedericus, and the Bibliotheca See also:Latina of See also:Fabricius (unfinished) ; Archaeologia litteraria (1768), new and improved edition by See also:Martini (1790) ; Horatius Tursellinus De particulis (1769). II. In sacred literature: Antimuratorius sive confutatio disputationis Muratorianae de See also:rebus liturgicis (1755—1758); Neue theologische Bibliothek, vols. i. to x. (1760–176; Institutio interpretis Nov. Test. (3rd ed., 1775) ; Neueste theologische Bibliothek, vols. i. to x. (1771–1775). Besides these, he published more than a See also:hundred smaller works, many of which have been collected in the three following publications: Opuscula oratoria (1762, 2nd ed., 1767); Opuscula philologica et critica (1764, 2nd ed., 1776); Opuscula theologica (1773). See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie; J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii. (1908). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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