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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: RE: (Fwd) re: Re: The Sons of El
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:39:58 -0700


> > 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."
>
Hmm, good question. My edition doesn't list their abbreviations,
but like you I assumed it was Sirach. I didn't check the references,
just offered the footnote as it appears in the book. I can't find any
reference of this type in Sirach either, so I'm not sure what they
were talking about. Thanks for pointing that out.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.




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