Part 4. Chapter Xx. That In A Free State : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], [20:0] CHAPTER XX--THAT IN A FREE STATE EVERY MAN MAY THINK WHAT HE LIKES, AND SAY WHAT HE THINKS. [20:1] (1) If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne, and government by...
Part 2. Chapter X. An Examinati : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER X.--AN EXAMINATION OF THE REMAINING BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ACCORDING TO THE PRECEDING METHOD. (1) I now pass on to the remaining books of the Old Testament. (2) Concerning the two books of Chronicles I have nothing...
Part 2. Chapter Ix. Other Questions Concerning : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER IX--OTHER QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE SAME BOOKS: NAMELY, WHETHER THEY WERE COMPLETELY FINISHED BY EZRA, AND, FURTHER, WHETHER THE MARGINAL NOTES WHICH ARE FOUND IN THE HEBREW TEXTS WERE VARIOUS READINGS. (1) How greatly...
Part 4. Chapter Xviii. From The Commonwealth : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], [18:0] CHAPTER XVIII--FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE HEBREWS, AND THEIR HISTORY, CERTAIN POLITICAL DOCTRINES ARE DEDUCED. [18:1] (1) Although the commonwealth of the Hebrews, as we have conceived it, might have lasted for ever, it...
Part 4. Chapter Xix. It Is Shown Th : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], [19:0] CHAPTER XIX--IT IS SHOWN THAT THE RIGHT OVER MATTERS SPIRITUAL LIES WHOLLY WITH THE SOVEREIGN, AND THAT THE OUTWARD FORMS OF RELIGION SHOULD BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLIC PEACE, IF WE WOULD OBEY GOD ARIGHT. (1) When I said...
Part 2. Chapter Viii. Of The Authorship : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER VIII.--OF THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PENTATEUCH AND THE OTHER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (1) In the former chapter we treated of the foundations and principles of Scriptural knowledge, and showed that it consists...
Part 3. Chapter Xi. An Inquiry Whether : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER XI--AN INQUIRY WHETHER THE APOSTLES WROTE THEIR EPISTLES AS APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, OR MERELY AS TEACHERS; AND AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT IS MEANT BY AN APOSTLE. (1) No reader of the New Testament can doubt that the Apostles...
Section 1. Chapter Ii. Of Prophets : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER II.--OF PROPHETS. (1) It follows from the last chapter that, as I have said, the prophets were endowed with unusually vivid imaginations, and not with unusually, perfect minds. (2) This conclusion is amply sustained by...
Section 1. Chapter V. Of The Ceremonial Law : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER V.--OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW. (1) In the foregoing chapter we have shown that the Divine law, which renders men truly blessed, and teaches them the true life, is universal to all men; nay, we have so intimately deduced it...
Part 2. Chapter Vii. Of The Interpretati : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER VII.--OF THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE (1) When people declare, as all are ready, to do, that the Bible is the Word of God teaching man true blessedness and the way of salvation, they evidently do not mean what they...
Part 4. Chapter Xvi. Of The Foundations : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], [16:0] CHAPTER XVI--OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF A STATE; OF THE NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS; AND OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER. (1) Hitherto our care has been to separate philosophy from theology, and to show...
Part 3. Chapter Xiii. It Is Shown That Scripture : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER XIII--IT IS SHOWN THAT SCRIPTURE TEACHES ONLY VERY SIMPLE DOCTRINES, SUCH AS SUFFICE FOR RIGHT CONDUCT. (1) In the second chapter of this treatise we pointed out that the prophets were gifted with extraordinary powers...
Section 1. Chapter Iii. Of The Vocati : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER III.--OF THE VOCATION OF THE HEBREWS, AND WHETHER THE GIFT OF PROPHECY WAS PECULIAR TO THEM. (1) Every man's true happiness and blessedness consist solely in the enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone...
Section 1. Author's Endnotes : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE CHAPTERS I to V Chapter I Endnote 1. (1) The word naw-vee', Strong:5030, is rightly interpreted by Rabbi Salomon Jarchi, but the sense is hardly caught by Aben Ezra, who w...
Part 3. Author's Endnotes : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE CHAPTER XI. Endnote 24. (1) "Now I think." (2) The translators render the [Greek] word "I infer", and assert that Paul uses it as synonymous with [a Greek word]. (3) But...
Section 1. Chapter Iv. Of The Divine Law : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER IV.--OF THE DIVINE LAW. (1) The word law, taken in the abstract, means that by which an individual, or all things, or as many things as belong to a particular species, act in one and the same fixed and definite manner...
Title Page : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE BY BARUCH SPINOZA ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS VOLUME 1 OF THE CHIEF WORKS OF BENEDICT DE SPINOZA BY G. BELL AND SONS, LONDON [1883-1884] ETEXT CREATED BY JOSEPH B. YESSELMAN. FORMATTED.
Part 2. Chapter Vi. Of Miracles : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER VI.--OF MIRACLES. (1) As men are accustomed to call Divine the knowledge which transcends human understanding, so also do they style Divine, or the work of God, anything of which the cause is not generally known:...
Part 4. Chapter Xvii. It Is Shown That No : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], [17:0] CHAPTER XVII--IT IS SHOWN THAT NO ONE CAN, OR NEED, TRANSFER ALL HIS RIGHTS TO THE SOVEREIGN POWER. OF THE HEBREW REPUBLIC, AS IT WAS DURING THE LIFETIME OF MOSES, AND AFTER HIS DEATH, TILL THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY;...
Part 2. Author's Endnotes : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE Part 2--Chapters VI to X CHAPTER VI. Endnote 6. (1) We doubt of the existence of God, and consequently of all else, so long as we have no clear and distinct idea of God, but...
Section 1. Preface : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE Part 1--Chapters I To V PREFACE. (1) Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently...
Part 3. Chapter Xiv. Definitions Of Faith : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER XIV--DEFINITIONS OF FAITH, THE FAITH, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH, WHICH IS ONCE FOR ALL SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY. (1) For a true knowledge of faith it is above all things necessary to understand that the Bible w...
Section 1. Chapter I. Of Prophecy : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER I.--OF PROPHECY (1) Prophecy, or revelation is sure knowledge revealed by God to man. (2) A prophet is one who interprets the revelations of God to those who are unable to attain to sure knowledge of the matters revealed...
Part 4. Author's Endnotes : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE CHAPTER XVI. [Endnote 26]. (1) "No one can honestly promise to forego the right which he has over all things." (2) In the state of social life, where general right determines...
Part 3. Chapter Xii. Of The True Original : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER XII--OF THE TRUE ORIGINAL OF THE DIVINE LAW, AND WHEREFORE SCRIPTURE IS CALLED SACRED, AND THE WORD OF GOD. HOW THAT, IN SO FAR AS IT CONTAINS THE WORD OF GOD, IT HAS COME DOWN TO US UNCORRUPTED. (1) Those who look up...
Part 3. Chapter Xv. Theology Is Shown Not : * "A Theologico-Political Treatise", by Benedict de Spinoza, [1883], CHAPTER XV--THEOLOGY IS SHOWN NOT TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO REASON, NOR REASON TO THEOLOGY: A DEFINITION OF THE REASON WHICH ENABLES US TO ACCEPT THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE. (1) Those who know not that philosophy and reason are...
