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  • From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] God vs angels in Ps 8:5
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:31:42 +0000

On Sat 26 Mar 2005 (00:04:54 +0000), peterkirk AT qaya.org wrote:
> Well, against this interpretation is LXX, and the New Testament
> quotation based on it.

Dear Peter,

I was trying to leave aside the NT interpretation, and stay with Psalm 8:5
"as is".

IMHO the LXX board of translators were trying to avoid "taking the Name in
vain" when they came to Psalm 8:5; so they probably substituted "angels"
out of deference. Man is obviously lower than God, and lower than the
angels who are in God's presence. But "the son of man" in Psalm 8:4 is also a
specific title of God (Daniel 7:13), and it is Jesus who is named in Hebrews
2:9 as the one being made a little lower than [the angels/God] in his
incarnation.

This is no forum for discussing Christian dogma, so I'll say no more.

Happy Easter

Ben
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