The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Religion
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Literature -- History and criticism
Surely this is more than doubtful; and even the instance given is
irreconcilable with Christ's own assertion concerning the last day,
which must be understood of his human soul, by all who hold the faith
delivered from the foundation, namely, his deity. Field seems to have
excerpted this incautiously from the Schoolmen, who on this premiss
could justify the communicability of adoration, as in the case of the
saints. Omniscience, it may be proved, implies omnipotence. The fourth
of the arguments in this section, and, as closely connected with it, the
first (only somewhat differently stated) seem the strongest, or rather
the only ones. For the second is a mere anticipation of the fourth, and
all that is true in the third is involved in it.
Ib. c. 5. p. 9.
And began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
That is, I humbly apprehend, in other than the Hebrew and Syrochaldaic
languages, which (with rare and reluctant exceptions in favor of the
Greek) were appropriated to public prayer and exhortation, just as the
Latin in the Romish Church. The new converts preached and prayed, each
to his companions in his and their dialect;--they were all Jews, but had
assembled from all the different provinces of the Roman and Parthian
empires, as the Quakers among us to the yearly meeting in London; this
was a sign, not a miracle. The miracle consisted in the visible and
audible descent of the Holy Ghost, and in the fulfilment of the prophecy
of Joel, as explained by St. Peter himself. 'Acts' ii. 15.
Ib. p.10.
'Aliud est etymologia nominis et aliud significatio nominis.
Etymologia attenditur secundum id it quo imponitur nomen ad
significandum: nominis vero significatio secundum id ad quod
significandum imponitur.'
This passage from Aquinas would be an apt motto for a critique on
Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley. The best service of etymology is,
when the sense of a word is still unsettled, and especially when two
words have each two meanings; A=a-b, and B=a-b, instead of A=a and
B=b. Thus reason and understanding as at present popularly confounded.
Here the 'etyma,--ratio,' the relative proportion of thoughts and
things,--and understanding, as the power which substantiates
'phænomena (substat eis)'--determine the proper sense. But most often
the 'etyma' being equivalent, we must proceed 'ex arbitrio,' as 'law
compels,' 'religion obliges;' or take up what had been begun in some
one derivative. Thus 'fanciful' and 'imaginative,' are
discriminated;--and this supplies the ground of choice for giving to
fancy and imagination, each its own sense. Cowley is a fanciful
writer, Milton an imaginative poet. Then I proceed with the
distinction, how ill fancy assorts with imagination, as instanced in
Milton's Limbo. [3]
Ib.
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