Hi all,
Has anyone noticed this awesome scripture in the LXX?
41:4 Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM.
Isaiah 41:4
In this one verse we seem to have God saying he is the first and last and the I AM.
This is awesome to me because I have encountered those who use the LXX in discussions that love to point out that I AM is not presented as being a name for God in
Exodus 3. So according to them when Yeshua says "before Abraham was I AM" it references back to nothing!
But let us also try this on for size from the LXX.
46:3 Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by me] from the womb, and taught [by me] from infancy, [even] to old age:
46:4 I am [he]; and until ye shall have grown old, I am [he]: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.
Isaiah 46:4
If we understand the bracketed words in verse 46 to be interpolations here God calls himself I AM twice in this one verse!
So if the Septuagint is referenced by Arians in combating the Messiahs deity on the basis of
Exodus 3 these are several other places that make glorious cross references with
John 8:56:
57: Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58: Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.