[b-hebrew] LORD
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Sat Feb 8 10:51:27 EST 2003
In a message dated 2/8/2003 10:48:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mattfeld12 at charter.net writes:
> The Early Christians did NOT use the Hebrew Masoretic text they used the
> Greek Septuaginta. Now as we both know this Greek translation according the
> rules of translation that you have just expounded upon, is a "sorry"
> translation indeed ! Yet this "sorry" translation is the VERY corner stone
> of Early Christian belief.
>
Walter,
You are indisputably wrong here. The early church did use the LXX. But it
also used the MT (or should I say its precursor). You can find passages that
clearly come from the LXX and you can find passages clearly translated
directly from the Hebrew.
gfsomsel
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