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  • From: Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>
  • To: 'Dave Washburn' <dwashbur AT nyx.net>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: (Fwd) re: Re: The Sons of El
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:36:25 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Washburn [mailto:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> Subject: (Fwd) re: Re: The Sons of El
>
> The commentary of Keil and Delitzsch
> (vol. 1 p. 470) says:
>
> --
> The Septuagint rendering, "according to the number of the angels
> of God," is of no critical value,--in fact, is nothing more than an
> arbitrary interpretation founded upon the later Jewish notion of
> guardian angels of the different nations (sir xvii. 14), which probably
> originated in a misunderstanding of chap. iv. 19, as compared with
> Dan. x. 13, 20, 21, and xii. 1.

Help me with this reference. I don't have K&D to look at his abbrevs.
What is (sir xvii. 14)? I have looked at "Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach
17:14"
and see nothing in there about angels, much less guardian angels. The
entire
chapter is about man, and what God did for him. The only mention of angels
in
the chapter is in verse 32, "He marshals the host of the height of heaven;
but all men are dust and ashes."

--
Steve Brailsford




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