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Re: Does anyone use the Septuagint?
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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta
Quotes from the OT in the NT are tricky. Sometimes they are from the LXX. Sometimes they are from the MT. Sometimes they are from something else.
Some quotes are more allusions than quotes. The entire idea of verbatim quotes was known in Greek literature of that day.
But it is interesting.
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The NT quotes are either from the LXX, or an Aramaic translation which we no longer have access. With all due respect, saying that the NT quoted from the MT is like saying the NT quoted from the Book of Mormon. The Masoretic text only came to be 600 years after Jesus, His apostles, and Paul. Scrolls which were in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek may have some things worded as in the MT, but not all the MT represents what they had available during the 1st Century.
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