WEBVTT 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:39.520 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:40.320 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:44.320 Mahler. And I'm still woe. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:44.640 On 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.520 today's Stone Choir, we are concluding the seventh part Septuagent series that 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:51.520 began some time ago. 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:55.520 This is entirely a part two of the previous episode, so this 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.840 intro is going to be very brief because the intro for this 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.520 episode is quite literally the intro for the previous episode. 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.720 We are continuing right where we left off in the New Testament. 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:07.360 As we said, the New Testament is our closing argument for the 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:11.120 Septuagint. The structure of this particular episode is going to be very 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.440 simple. We're going to speed run through 44 verses in the New 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:20.800 Testament that are quoted from the Septuagint exclusively and cannot possibly be 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:22.960 from any Hebrew foreloga. 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:26.080 And then Cory and I are each going to give our closing 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:30.320 statements. Basically we're presenting the evidence, we're gonna close out the case 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.720 and then we're going to wrap everything up. 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:36.000 And so that we don't repeat ourselves because we basically say pretty 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:36.720 much the same thing. 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.840 We've obviously reached the same conclusions and all this. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:43.360 My conclusion is simply going to be a recitation of the facts 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:44.400 that we presented. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.560 Basically, I'm going to pull the previous seven episodes back into everybody's 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.880 memory so that warm up those caches and get your contacts window 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:56.800 refilled with the relevant facts so that the arguments we make are 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:00.720 in the context of everything we've presented. 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:03.840 The next verse that we're going to be looking at from the 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:09.120 New Testament begins in Romans in the previous episode we went through 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.520 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts, which included all four gospel writers, 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.160 and at the end we're already looking at Paul himself quoting the 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:17.840 Septuagint in Acts. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:20.880 Today we're going to be going from Romans through Revelation. 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:25.760 First verse is Romans two twenty-four, which is a quotation of Isaiah 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.680 fifty-two five. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.920 The New Testament reads, For just as it is written, the name 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:36.320 of God is being blasphemed among the nations because of you. 00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:40.240 And the Septuagint says, Because of you, my name is continually blasphemed 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.520 among the nations. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.640 So slightly different word order, exactly the same wording. 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:49.760 The rabbinic text says, My name is continually despised all day long. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:53.920 So there is neither because of you nor among the nations. 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:57.440 So yet again we have an example where the rabbis deleted something 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:01.520 that says you Jews are doing something wicked, and because of you 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:05.920 wicked Jews, the nations, that is us, the rest of the people 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:09.840 in the world, for whom the gospel is intended, despise me. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:10.960 That was true then? 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.240 It's certainly true today. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.760 This sort of false doctrine when it's coming from those who should 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:19.360 be the believers, when unbelievers see it, they're never going to believe 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.480 in the true God. 00:03:20.480 --> 00:03:24.000 One of the single most effective things a Satan can do to 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:28.160 undermine the church is to have the church itself spreading filth. 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:31.040 And when we're relying on rabbis, that's what we get. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:33.920 So right off the bat in Romans, the very first quote, is 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:37.920 the rabbis specifically altering something where God points out that that's what 00:03:37.920 --> 00:03:40.160 they do. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.560 One more thing I want you to note here in this first 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.200 example before we move to the second one. 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:50.800 As it is written, that phrase occurs many times in your New 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:53.680 Testament. Pay attention to that. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.880 There's a reason they're saying, as it is written. 00:03:56.880 --> 00:03:58.880 They have access to what is written. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:01.360 That's Gagrapti in the Greek there. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.560 That occurs in many of these quotations, that occurs in many places 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.160 in the New Testament, think about what that means. 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:12.000 And so the next example is from Romans three four citing to 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.440 Psalm fifty one four, using the numbering with which we are all 00:04:15.440 --> 00:04:19.360 familiar, Psalm fifty in the Septuagint numbering. 00:04:19.520 --> 00:04:24.080 The ESV reads By no means, let God be true, though every 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:27.360 one were a liar, as it is written, that you may be 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.960 justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged. 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:34.480 And then from the Septuagint, so that you may be justified in 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:38.080 your words, and be victorious when you go to the law. 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:42.880 The same sentiment, same statement, then from the rabbinic text. 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:47.200 So you are just in your sentence and right in your judgement. 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:52.080 Incidentally, the translations play a little bit of a game, not necessarily 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:57.280 intentionally in this case, but the underlying verbs there in the Greek 00:04:57.520 --> 00:04:59.040 are identical. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.480 So it is even more of a quote than you would believe 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.040 if you were simply reading it in the English without looking at 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.760 the underlying Greek. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:08.160 And 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.200 this is a case where there's a complete inversion of when you 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:13.360 are judged to when you judge. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.560 That's quite a radical difference theologically. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.720 And yet again, we have God's wrath diminished by the changes the 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:26.720 rabbis made The next quotation is from Romans nine twenty-five of Hosea 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.560 two twenty-three. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.880 Paul says, as indeed he says in Hosea, those who were not 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:35.760 my people I will call my people, and her who was not 00:05:35.760 --> 00:05:38.160 beloved I will call beloved. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.760 And the Septuagint says, I will love her who is not loved. 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:46.400 So the loved beloved wording is what is preserved there. 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:49.680 The rabbinic text is quite different in a couple ways. 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:53.600 It reads, And I will have mercy on no mercy, and I 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.960 will say to not my people, you are my people. 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:00.480 So in many of the Bibles we have now no mercy and 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.120 not my people are capitalized, as though those are proper names for 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.600 whom God is referring to. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:12.240 So what we have removed here, the beloved in love is termed 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.280 to mercy and then and then pity. 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:20.160 It's a fundamental change in the wording which obviously can't be preserved 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.560 in a manner that survives translation. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.920 It's clear that the Septuagint is being quoted. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.960 And notably this is Hosea, this is one of the minor prophets, 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:30.720 as one of two quotations. 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.320 I highlight that to point out that once again we're not talking 00:06:34.320 --> 00:06:35.680 about the Pentateuch. 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:40.080 When the New Testament quotes the Septuagint, it is indiscriminate about which 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:42.080 books it chooses. 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:45.040 And sadly, this is also something we should take as a warning 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:49.440 when we do things like make the Reformation argument that, oh well, 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:51.920 the books that we put in the back of the New Testament, 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.040 they're not as important. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.200 You will not find that hermeneutic in the way Jesus and the 00:06:57.200 --> 00:06:59.520 apostles argue from the Old Testament. 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:02.480 There is no unimportant book in the Old Testament. 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.200 There's no book in the Old Testament from which we do not 00:07:05.200 --> 00:07:07.840 derive doctrine. 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:12.960 That is a very dangerous premise to introduce into a circumstance where 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:16.400 we go around saying that all of Scripture is breathed out by 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:17.920 God. Which is it? 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.480 If God says it, that means it's really important. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:26.160 So when we see Paul putting quotations of Hosea right alongside Isaiah 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.040 and all the others, that means something. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:33.200 It means something in terms of us taking seriously wherever we find 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:35.920 the Greek scripture. 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:40.720 This is another instance where the underlying Greek word is again identical. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.320 And so just because the English words are related they are similar, 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:48.320 you can see that congruence there, that agreement between the New Testament 00:07:48.320 --> 00:07:50.320 quotation and the Old Testament. 00:07:50.320 --> 00:07:53.920 It is in the Greek the same word. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:59.040 The next example is Romans nine twenty seven, citing to Isaiah ten 00:07:59.280 --> 00:08:00.000 twenty two. 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:04.960 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, though the number of the sons 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:08.320 of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant 00:08:08.320 --> 00:08:09.840 of them will be saved. 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:13.760 And then from the Septuagint, and if the people of Israel become 00:08:13.760 --> 00:08:16.720 like the sand of the sea, the remnant of them will be 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.480 saved. There are a few cases when we are going through these 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.640 examples, where I have slightly changed the wording as it may read 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:28.400 literally in whatever translation of the Bible you have. 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:31.840 When I have done that it is because the underlying Greek term 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.440 is exactly identical, and I don't want to have to note that 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.960 every single time And so if I've made them match, it's because 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.280 they do in fact match in the Greek. 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:45.520 The Masoretic text is instead only a remnant of them shall return. 00:08:45.680 --> 00:08:49.520 The word there, this time I will note it for return, Is 00:08:49.520 --> 00:08:52.880 identical. So is saved incidentally. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.000 And continuing with Romans 9, 27 and 28, again, this is quoting 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.720 us Isaiah 10, 22, and 23. 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:06.640 We split these in two because they're actually multiple parts where there's 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:10.000 sufficient differences that the numbering of how you want to choose to 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.520 the forty-four we're we're referring to, it's not a magic number, it's 00:09:13.520 --> 00:09:14.320 not special. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.480 This is just the way we're grouping these things. 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.920 The same passage is Cory just read. 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:22.240 I'm gonna highlight a different portion of it. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:25.600 The Septuagint says he will finish the work and cut short in 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:29.920 righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work in all the 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:36.000 world. Whereas Rabinic's hex says, destruction is decreed overflowing with righteousness, for 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.200 the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.040 in the midst of the earth. 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:46.080 So the phrase cut short is verbatim in the Septuagint, which is 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.080 not the case in the rabbinic. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.680 And also the phrase that's in Greek, upon the inhabited world, which 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:58.720 is in the accusative, is different in the Masoretic when you look 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.280 at the parts of speech that are used. 00:10:01.280 --> 00:10:05.360 So where the Greek says upon the inhabitive world, the Hebrew says 00:10:05.520 --> 00:10:10.720 upon the earth, which sounds the same in English, except in Hebrew 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:14.240 it's in the genitive case, which is possessive. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.600 So in the midst of the earth, saying that in a possessive 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:23.520 sense versus accusive changes the nature of whom is doing the possessing 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:25.280 or whom is doing the occupying. 00:10:25.280 --> 00:10:26.560 So it's a subtle shift. 00:10:26.560 --> 00:10:30.080 And again, we're not trying to make a bunch of theological points 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:35.360 here. We're specifically highlighting their clear textual differences where Paul is simply 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:36.560 quoting the Greek. 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:40.640 But it is notable that some of these differences do have knock 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:46.720 on effects to how one would theologically interpret some of these passages. 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:50.640 Just a quick note on my previous comment about Remnant because I 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:52.560 know it's going to come up at some point in the future, 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:54.640 someone's going to object to what I said. 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:59.280 To be entirely specific, it is the same core word there. 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:03.760 Because the Greek uses two slightly different variants of the same word. 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:09.840 You have hupalima in the New Testament and Katalima in the Old 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.520 Testament. Same core word, slightly different. 00:11:13.760 --> 00:11:15.120 In terms of nuance. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.440 We have many of those examples in English as well, so you're 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.840 all familiar with that. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:27.200 So the next example is Romans 9:29, citing to Isaiah 1:9. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:30.720 And as Isaiah predicted, if the Lord of hosts had not left 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.280 us offspring, we would have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. 00:11:35.280 --> 00:11:38.640 And then from the Septuagint, and if the Lord of hosts had 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:42.400 not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom, and become 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:44.000 like Gomorra. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.960 This is one of the cases and this happened as I was 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.280 taking notes for this episode. 00:11:49.280 --> 00:11:53.440 My notes increasingly just become Greek near the end, because in many 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:57.920 cases it is essentially an exact quote, what we would literally call 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:00.000 a quote in English. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.040 Sometimes there's a particle difference here and there. 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:05.520 That's something that happens, sometimes in Greek. 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:09.040 We do that in English as well, but I started adding the 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:11.440 Greek in because I can look at the two verses in the 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:13.680 Greek and they're identical. 00:12:13.680 --> 00:12:17.200 There's a difference of maybe two words in this case. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:21.360 Whereas in the rabbinic version it says, had not left us a 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:22.400 few survivors. 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.880 The Greek's identical, the rabbis gave us something else. 00:12:26.880 --> 00:12:29.760 It's very clear the New Testament author is citing to the Greek. 00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:33.360 He's basically quoting it as we would call a quote in English, 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:34.960 which is to say literal. 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:39.920 And the Greek word that's used there for offspring that how it's 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:43.680 translated in some septuagent translations is sperma. 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:45.680 It should really be translated seed. 00:12:45.680 --> 00:12:48.800 And And uh Lexum and Brenton both use seed. 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:53.920 That's very biblical language that is used in the New Testament to 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:57.600 correlate Jesus to the promise that was made to Abraham and to 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:03.120 Jacob. So that distinction, that removal of seed and replacing it with 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.400 remnant, also has theological knock on effects. 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:10.240 And it's you can't possibly mistranslate one for the other There. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.640 Next example, still in Romans 9. 00:13:12.640 --> 00:13:15.360 This is I think the fourth or fifth example we have in 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.600 Romans 9, all right in a row. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.880 If you go read Romans 9, 10 and 11, because most of 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:25.440 these quotations from those, when you see whom Paul is addressing, it 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.040 becomes kind of interesting that he's talking all this Greek to these 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:33.120 people, not what you'd expect based on what we're told about the 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:35.680 context in the New Testament. 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:40.480 Romans nine hundred thirty three and ten eleven both quote Isaiah twenty 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.080 eight sixteen. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.600 Paul says, Just as it is written, Look I am laying in 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.480 Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble stumble, and a 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:51.280 rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in 00:13:51.280 --> 00:13:52.960 him will not be put to shame. 00:13:53.040 --> 00:13:56.000 The Septuagint repeats, the one who believes in him will not be 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.280 put to shame identically. 00:13:57.280 --> 00:14:00.720 Whereas the rabbinic text says, He who believes will not be in 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.160 haste. So the put to shame 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.840 and in him is replaced with an entirely different notion, not be 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:08.720 in haste. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.560 This is one that both neuters a Christological prophecy and really fundamentally 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:18.000 changes the meaning, as is usual, to something that's like, what does 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:18.880 that even mean? 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:20.560 He will not be in haste. 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:22.480 It's one of these things where when you read in the old 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.000 testament, like, I don't know, it's just some weird shamitic saying, we 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.440 have no idea what they're talking about. 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:30.880 Basically it's reducing the Old Testament to magic Bible language. 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:31.760 That's rubbish. 00:14:31.760 --> 00:14:34.800 It makes perfect sense, but it only makes sense in the original 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:37.360 Greek. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.600 The next example still in the Book of Romans, Romans 10, 18, 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.040 citing to Psalm 19:4, again using the numbering with which we're all 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:48.960 familiar. Their voice is gone out to all the earth, and their 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:50.880 words to the ends of the world. 00:14:50.880 --> 00:14:54.480 And then from the Septuagint, their voice went out to all the 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.360 earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:59.840 This is another case where I just took the Greek and stuck 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:03.360 it in my notes because they're identical. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.520 The Rabbinic text has their line is gone out through all the 00:15:07.520 --> 00:15:13.680 earth. They've just changed this to something that is practically again incoherent 00:15:13.760 --> 00:15:15.360 like the previous example. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:17.840 It's something again that we'll read in the Old Testament and just 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.880 assume that this must have some sort of meaning. 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:22.800 But of course it has a meaning when you read it in 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:25.600 the Greek, when you have what it actually means, their voice has 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.680 gone out to all the earth. 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:34.160 Incidentally, the ESV deliberately chooses the Septuagint over the rabbinic in this 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:38.960 case, and in the footnote for this it just says their measuring 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:44.640 line. In other words, footnoting what the actual rabbinic text says, the 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:49.200 text on which the ESV is supposedly based, but using the Greek, 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:53.520 because the Greek makes sense, and the Hebrew does not. 00:15:53.520 --> 00:15:56.160 And again, this is a case where the Greek is an actual 00:15:56.160 --> 00:15:58.560 quote. This is This is what we would call a quote in 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:00.720 English. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:00.960 The 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:05.280 next example is Romans eleven, verse ten, which is quoting Psalm sixty 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:09.840 nine twenty-three, or if you look in the Septuagint sixty eight twenty-four. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.520 And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap, 00:16:13.520 --> 00:16:16.320 a stumbling block and a retribution for them. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.360 Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:21.760 make their backs bend continually. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.360 And the Septuagint says, bend their back always. 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:30.400 Whereas the rabbinic text says, make their loins continually tremble. 00:16:30.400 --> 00:16:35.360 Yet again, this is both not a match literally, so clearly not 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:39.200 a quote, and the Hebrew is unclear to be charitable. 00:16:40.880 --> 00:16:41.040 And 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:43.280 again the Greek is a literal quote. 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:45.680 I'm looking at the two here in Greek. 00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:47.920 Exact same. 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:51.120 A funny little aside from the previous example before I give the 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:55.280 next one, one of the Jewish translations at which I looked actually 00:16:55.280 --> 00:16:59.840 used the Septuagint to correct their own Hebrew, because they also agreed 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:01.520 that it was incoherent. 00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:02.720 Which is incredible. 00:17:03.520 --> 00:17:03.920 Sort of 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:07.280 a deep irony, but it's actually perfect because as we made the 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:12.080 case in the first episode, until Jesus came and they murdered him, 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:13.360 they were all using the Greek. 00:17:13.360 --> 00:17:17.280 Exactly. The Septuagint was the authoritative Bible Bible of the Jews of 00:17:17.280 --> 00:17:20.720 Jesus Day, which is why everyone's citing it in the New Testament. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.280 So it's not actually bizarre Hebrew scholarship for them to cite the 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:29.600 Septuagint. It was authoritative with them until they replaced it. 00:17:29.600 --> 00:17:33.200 It's they're the ones who became liars when they rejected the stone 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.360 that became the capstone, and now we have seminaries teaching the same 00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:38.480 thing the rabbis 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:40.000 do. The 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.040 next example still in the book of Romans, you may notice a 00:17:43.040 --> 00:17:47.280 theme here, Romans eleven twenty six B citing to Isaiah fifty nine 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:51.920 twenty. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.320 is written again Gropti, the deliverer will come from Zion, he will 00:17:56.320 --> 00:17:58.640 banish ungodliness from Jacob. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:02.800 And the Septuagint, the deliverer will come for the sake of Zion, 00:18:02.800 --> 00:18:06.000 and he will turn ungodliness back from Jacob. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:11.200 The Rabbinic text has, however, and a redeemer will come to Zion, 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.920 to those in Jacob who turn from transgression. 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:17.280 This is an inversion. 00:18:17.280 --> 00:18:21.680 This is a completely different statement in the Rabbinic text. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:25.840 In the Septuagint this is a clear prophecy of the Savior of 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:30.800 Christ. In the Rabbinic text this is simply the promise of reward 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:33.360 for those who turn from transgression. 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:38.240 It is a fundamentally different saying, it changes a theology entirely. 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.400 You basically go from having a Savior who is going to come 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:46.960 and save us from our sins, which is exactly what the gospel 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.920 is to works righteousness. 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.080 That's what the rabbis have handed us 00:18:54.080 --> 00:18:54.240 And 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:58.800 that's made very clear in the last portion of the quote in 00:18:58.800 --> 00:19:00.560 Romans 11, 26. 00:19:00.560 --> 00:19:03.680 It says, He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.720 And then another quote, and this will be my covenant with them 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:08.960 when I take away their sins. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:13.680 So Paul very directly connects God removing the sins of his people 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.000 to what else is going on here. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:21.280 So when the rabbis removed that portion, they were specifically denying what 00:19:21.280 --> 00:19:24.800 Paul quotes and what Paul confesses in Romans. 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:29.200 Next example from the very next verse, Romans 11, 27, which is 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:34.400 quoting Isaiah 27, 9, and is quoting Isaiah 59, 21. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.120 So as I mentioned in the previous episode, Isaiah is quoted, I 00:19:37.120 --> 00:19:38.480 believe, 29 times. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:43.120 in the New Testament exclusively from the Septuagint. 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:44.320 It's overwhelmingly. 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:47.760 Forty-four percent of the quotes that we're looking at are from Isaiah. 00:19:47.760 --> 00:19:51.040 So as I mentioned last week, when someone brings up the so-called 00:19:51.040 --> 00:19:53.840 Great Isaiah scroll, you need to laugh at them and tell them 00:19:53.840 --> 00:20:00.400 to shut up because the New Testament rejects it out of hand. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.760 So the difference that we are highlighting here has to do with 00:20:03.760 --> 00:20:08.400 the first person promise when I take away their sins, which when 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:14.800 we look at Isaiah twenty seven nine, the Septuagint says, Therefore shall 00:20:14.800 --> 00:20:18.560 the iniquity of Jacob be taken away, and this is his blessing, 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:21.040 when I shall have taken away his sin. 00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:24.880 Whereas the Rabbinic text for Isaiah twenty seven nine says, Therefore by 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:28.160 this guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.360 the fruit of the removal of his sin. 00:20:31.360 --> 00:20:35.600 So what is removed in this passage is the first person promise 00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:38.640 when I take away their sins. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.720 What the rabbis have done here is made it unclear that God 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:44.400 is taking away their sins. 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:46.640 Now, of course, as Christians, we know that that's the only possible 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.600 way sins go away, but that's not what the rabbis taught. 00:20:49.600 --> 00:20:52.480 They taught completely different theology. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.560 And so this diminution of God's active participation in the removal of 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:02.080 sin is both textually a difference that means this Isaiah quote can 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:06.720 only possibly be coming from the Septuagint, but it's also a denial 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.040 of Christ. 00:21:09.360 --> 00:21:09.600 The 00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:14.720 next example Romans eleven thirty four citing to Isaiah forty verse thirteen 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:17.840 for who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has 00:21:17.840 --> 00:21:19.120 been his counselor? 00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:22.080 And then from the Septuagint, who has known the mind of the 00:21:22.080 --> 00:21:25.920 Lord, and who has been his counsellor to instruct him? 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.240 The Rabbinic, however, has who has measured the spirit of the Lord, 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.800 or what man shows him his counsel. 00:21:32.800 --> 00:21:36.960 It changed both of the two parts of this verse. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:39.600 Spirit is a completely different word from mind. 00:21:39.600 --> 00:21:42.560 It is the same word, it's the same phrase, incidentally, mutting to 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:46.000 the Lord in the Greek there. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:48.640 Spirit is a different concept. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.560 It's capitalized in many of our Old Testaments because they're assuming it's 00:21:52.560 --> 00:21:56.400 a reference to the Holy Spirit, to the Holy Ghost. 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.640 But that's not what we actually have in this verse. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:00.160 It's not what it says in the New Testament. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.600 Testament and it's not what it says in the Old Testament. 00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:08.160 And what man shows him his counsel, certainly we can read that 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:13.120 through a Christian lens and try to make that consonant with what 00:22:13.120 --> 00:22:16.640 Scripture teaches, make that make sense, but again this is a case 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.040 where the Hebrew is actually essentially gibberish, because who has been his 00:22:21.040 --> 00:22:23.680 counsellor makes perfect sense. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.400 What man shows him his counsel? 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:29.120 This is going to depend on how you want to try to 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:31.840 assign these pronouns and make this make sense. 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:35.360 We shouldn't be looking at the Old Testament and trying to make 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:38.000 a jumbled mess of Hebrew make sense. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.560 We have the Greek and it is an exact match to what 00:22:40.560 --> 00:22:43.600 is in the New Testament. 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:48.000 Next we have Romans twelve nineteen, which is quoting Deuteronomy thirty two, 00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:53.040 thirty-five. Paul again says, For it is written, Vengeance is mine, I 00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:54.800 will repay, says the Lord. 00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:59.120 And And the Septuagint quotes, Vengeance is mine, I will repay. 00:22:59.120 --> 00:23:03.360 The rabbinic text says, Vengeance is mine and recompense. 00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:09.120 So the explicit promise I will repay is completely removed, and recompense 00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:11.280 is put in there, which you could say is sort of the 00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:13.440 same thing, but it's not a quote. 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:21.280 The next example, Romans 14, 11, citing to again Isaiah 45 23. 00:23:21.280 --> 00:23:25.680 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.760 shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 00:23:29.760 --> 00:23:34.720 The Septuagint, because to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:36.640 shall acknowledge God. 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:42.800 The Rabbinicaz, instead, keeps every knee shall bow, but changes every tongue 00:23:42.800 --> 00:23:45.120 shall swear allegiance. 00:23:45.120 --> 00:23:48.320 There's a similar sentiment here, and that's the case in some of 00:23:48.320 --> 00:23:52.560 these examples, but it's very clear that what the New Testament is 00:23:52.560 --> 00:23:56.720 citing, what is being referenced there, is the Greek Old Testament, is 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:02.720 the Septuagint, because it is not identical, shall swear allegiance and confess 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:03.920 to God. 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:05.520 I 00:24:05.520 --> 00:24:08.480 think I would argue that's even worse than that because it's almost 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:10.480 describing this as teamwork. 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.320 The bow to me is submission, but then I'm gonna take an 00:24:14.320 --> 00:24:16.800 oath as like Laura, I'm I'm on team God now. 00:24:16.800 --> 00:24:19.920 I'm a I'm a big party of this covenant. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:25.200 Whereas when you say confess to God, it's continuation of that submission. 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.040 Next quote is from Romans 15 12, which is quoting Isaiah 11 00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:30.960 10. Paul. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.880 And again Isaiah says, The root of Jesse will come, even he 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:39.200 who arises to rule the nations, in him will the nations hope. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.360 And the Septuagint repeats verbatim. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:43.280 In him the nations will hope. 00:24:43.280 --> 00:24:46.800 The rabbinic text says the nations will seek. 00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:50.640 So the differences between hope and seek, which are both very different 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:52.960 words, cannot be a quote. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:57.120 And it's also a removal of the gospel. 00:24:57.120 --> 00:25:00.720 To say that the nations are seeking God, yeah, maybe, but for 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.400 the nations to have hope in God makes them already believers. 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.240 So it's a fundamental reduction of the gospel for us. 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:14.800 The rabbinic changes were not only substantive, they were harmful. 00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:15.520 And 00:25:15.520 --> 00:25:17.520 they weren't haphazard. 00:25:17.520 --> 00:25:22.160 This is one of the kinds of changes they made to Scripture 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.480 because they wanted to minimize the promises to those who are not 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:32.160 Jewish. That was one of their overarching goals throughout these changes, and 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.840 that is very obvious because this is a particular type of change 00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:39.520 that we see again and again and again. 00:25:39.520 --> 00:25:42.640 So the next example, moving on to a new book, but at 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.840 the same time not, because we're still in Isaiah for the citation 00:25:45.840 --> 00:25:47.280 here, the reference here. 00:25:47.360 --> 00:25:52.320 1 Corinthians 2.16 citing to Isaiah 40, verse 13, a verse we 00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:56.800 already used previously, and of course this is notable because there is 00:25:56.800 --> 00:26:02.400 a different intended audience for this epistle, and he is still using 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.680 the Greek, he is still citing to the Septuagint. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.080 For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:11.200 instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ, and then from 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.240 the Septuagint, and who has been his counselor to instruct him? 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.680 I won't replicate the comments from earlier because again this is the 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.960 same verse in Isaiah and essentially the same thing in the New 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:25.200 Testament. But it is worth noting that to instruct him, which is 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:30.320 the same Greek verb in both places, is simply absent from the 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:31.280 rabbinic text. 00:26:31.280 --> 00:26:34.080 They just removed that part of the wor of that one verse. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:41.440 The next example is also from first Corinthians chapter fourteen, verse twenty-one, 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.800 which is quoting Isaiah twenty-eight, eleven and twelve. 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:49.200 Paul writes, By people of other tongues and by the lips of 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:52.240 others I will speak to this people, and even then they will 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.240 not listen to me, says the Lord. 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:57.840 The Septuagint reads By reason of a different tongue and by another 00:26:57.840 --> 00:27:00.960 lip they will speak to this people, and they were not willing 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.160 to hear. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.560 The Rabbinic text says, For by stammering lips in another tongue he 00:27:06.560 --> 00:27:09.760 will speak to this people this is rest, and yet they would 00:27:09.760 --> 00:27:10.720 not hear. 00:27:11.120 --> 00:27:15.360 So this cannot possibly be a quote from the rabbinic text because 00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:21.120 Paul's wording of other tongues or different tongues in lips of others, 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:24.640 which is a form of refusal to listen, aligns exactly with the 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:27.440 Septuagint vocabulary and structure. 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.480 And it's not at all what the rabbis wrote with stammering lips. 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.560 And this is a case where if you look at your English 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:37.440 Bibles, some of them will go one way and some will go 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:38.000 the other. 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:40.560 If you look at Bible Hub for any of these, and it's 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:43.040 actually a good idea to do that, you can search any of 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:46.800 these Old Testament passages in Bible Hub and just scroll down and 00:27:46.800 --> 00:27:50.000 look through how the various translations choose to do these. 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:54.080 You'll find that in some cases they're very consistent with the rabbinic. 00:27:54.080 --> 00:27:56.720 In some cases they're very consistent with the Septuagint. 00:27:56.800 --> 00:27:58.720 In some cases are all over the place. 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.880 I have really come to despise translation committees in the process of 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:03.440 this project because 00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:07.040 they are singularly untrustworthy. 00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:09.600 Because many of the times when you look in the footnotes, there's 00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:12.720 no footnote that says, Oh yeah, we use a septuagent here. 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:15.760 They do not show you their cards because if they did it 00:28:15.760 --> 00:28:19.760 every time, they actually made changes from the Septuagint of the rabbinic 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:22.160 text, they would have some explaining to do. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:24.560 There's still a lot of those footnotes in there, but there would 00:28:24.560 --> 00:28:26.560 be a lot more if they were honest. 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:34.080 The next example, still in the book of First Corinthians, First Corinthians 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.960 15, 54, citing to Isaiah 25.8, the next example will also be 00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:43.520 right in this place in First Corinthians When the perishable puts on 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:47.520 the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to 00:28:47.520 --> 00:28:51.360 pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory. 00:28:51.360 --> 00:28:55.920 Then from the Septuagint, death having prevailed swallowed them up, and then 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:00.160 the rabbinic says he will swallow up death forever. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.120 There's a pretty significant difference here, even if it is really the 00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:06.400 difference of that single word. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:10.800 You have the word forever in the rabbinic text which is not 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:13.280 there in the New Testament citation. 00:29:13.280 --> 00:29:16.800 And so it's quite clear that the New Testament is again referencing 00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:21.040 the Greek because the author of the book was writing in Greek, 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:24.240 and he was reading the Greek while he was doing so. 00:29:25.840 --> 00:29:26.000 The 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.560 next example is the very next verse in 1 Corinthians 15, 55, 00:29:30.560 --> 00:29:33.040 quoting Hosea thirteen, fourteen. 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:36.400 Paul writes, Where O death is your victory, where O death is 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:37.520 your sting. 00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:41.600 And some textual variants read Hades for the second death, but the 00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:44.000 taunt is preserved. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.200 Septuagent Hosea says, Where is your penalty, O death? 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.360 O Hades, where is your sting? 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:53.760 Whereas the rabbinic, Hosea 13 says, I shall be your plagues, O 00:29:53.760 --> 00:29:56.720 death, I shall be your destruction, O Sheol. 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:00.320 So the rabbinic as the original source is again excluded here because 00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:06.240 Paul's rhetorical questions in sting language reflect the interrogative taunt that's present 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:11.360 in the Septuagint, whereas the rabbinic has declarative threats and not questions. 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:15.280 There's another case where your Bible may well conceal that it's actually 00:30:15.280 --> 00:30:17.120 using the Septuagint wording. 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:20.160 In fact I looked at the Lutheran study bible, which has very 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.960 long note for this, and yet it still conceals the fact that 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:24.960 they're actually using the Septuagint here. 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:29.600 It's absolutely unforgivable what the Bible producers have been doing for generations 00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:30.720 with this stuff. 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:32.240 Absolutely unforgivable. 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.960 Just intolerable wickedness to conceal this. 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:38.240 Because if they exposed every place where this was happening, we wouldn't 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.760 been the ones to figure this out. 00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:42.400 Any random guy with the Bible would have seen so many of 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:44.240 these, he would said, Hey, what's going 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:44.480 on 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:46.400 And 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:50.000 of course the underlying Greek words there are identical in terms of 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:55.120 victory, Nikkei and the word used for sting or goad, which languages 00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:59.040 often have many words for that, but it is identical here, Kentron. 00:30:59.040 --> 00:31:03.680 The next example still in the book of Corinthians, Corinthians one thirty 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:08.960 one, and incidentally also Second Corinthians ten seventeen, boast citing to Jeremiah 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:13.440 nine twenty four, so that as it is written, let the one 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.720 who boasts boast in the Lord, and this is identical from the 00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:22.160 second citation to the other epistle to the Corinthians from the Septuagint, 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.840 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and 00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:29.200 knows that I am the Lord. 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:30.160 Then from the 00:31:31.520 --> 00:31:36.080 Masoretic text that he understands and knows me that I am the 00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:38.880 Lord. The wording is changed, the wording is different. 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.480 Incidentally, it's even more different if you look at the Jewish translations 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.160 of their own text instead of the translations that we often have 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.600 in our Old Testament again, whereas we've mentioned a number of times. 00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:55.600 The translators play games with how they handle the text because they 00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:58.400 often pull in the Greek in order to make the Hebrew either 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:02.800 coherent or consonant with what they find in the New Testament. 00:32:02.800 --> 00:32:06.720 And so one of the Jewish translations, in this case the JPS, 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:10.240 the nineteen eighty five version, but only in this should one glory, 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:13.600 in his earnest devotion to me. 00:32:13.600 --> 00:32:17.600 That's not close at all to what we have here cited in 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:20.320 first Corinthians and in Second Corinthians. 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:24.640 In both epistles it is very clear that what is being used 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.080 is the underlying Greek. 00:32:26.080 --> 00:32:30.080 The Septuagint is what is being quoted, not whatever this is the 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:33.040 rabbis have in their text. 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:33.520 And 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:36.720 it's one of many places where the specific word that the rabbis 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.120 deleted was Lord. 00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:43.040 We now move on to another quote from 2 Corinthians, which was 00:32:43.040 --> 00:32:45.760 split there between first and second with the previous one. 00:32:45.760 --> 00:32:49.920 This is Second Corinthians four thirteen, which is quoting Psalm one hundred 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:54.080 sixteen verse ten, which in the Septuagint is one hundred fifteen verse 00:32:54.080 --> 00:32:57.920 one. If you're looking at certain books in the Old Testament, trying 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:01.520 to look up Septuagint passages, it's really a pain in the butt. 00:33:01.520 --> 00:33:04.080 So sometimes we'll give both examples. 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.400 When you dig into this stuff for yourself, if you want to 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:10.080 do comparative stuff, get used to some pain. 00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:11.840 It's not pleasant. 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:13.360 Because they're inconsistent. 00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:16.560 Some of the translations will use the same numbering that we're used 00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:20.080 to, some will use different numbering, and they're not even consistent when 00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:21.120 they use different numberings. 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:24.560 It's always exciting even to figure out which verse you're actually looking 00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:28.880 at. Paul writes in second Corinthians four thirteen, but since we have 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.240 the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:35.120 written, I believed, therefore I spoke. 00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:38.240 We also believe, therefore we also speak. 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:44.080 This is quoting I'll read from uh this is Septuagint Psalm 115:1. 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:47.120 I believed, therefore I spoke. 00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:52.480 The rabbinic Psalm 116-10, as commonly rendered, I believed for or when 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:56.240 I spoke, I am greatly afflicted. 00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:00.800 So the difference is the therefore, which is a concise clause that's 00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:03.440 mirrored exactly in the Septuagint. 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.960 So it's a case where the syntax can only possibly match again 00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:10.800 quoting the Psalms, which was another one of the most quoted books. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:17.200 The quotation Paul provides can only possibly be from the Septuagint. 00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.400 Another instance of what we would actually call a quote in English 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.040 if you look at the underlying Greek. 00:34:23.040 --> 00:34:28.480 The next example, this time from Galatians, Galatians 3:10, citing to Deuteronomy 00:34:28.560 --> 00:34:31.120 27, verse 26. 00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:33.920 For all who rely on works of the law are under a 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:37.600 curse, for it is written, Cursed be any one who does not 00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:40.640 abide by all things written in the book of the law and 00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:41.600 do them. 00:34:41.600 --> 00:34:45.200 From the Septuagint, Cursed be any one who does not remain in 00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:48.400 all the words of this law to do them. 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:52.800 From the rabbinic, cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:54.640 of this law by doing them. 00:34:54.640 --> 00:34:58.720 And so again there are similarities, of course, in many cases they 00:34:58.720 --> 00:35:02.800 were not so bold as to change things completely. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:05.600 But there are differences in word choice here. 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:09.840 The Greek is an extremely close paraphrase. 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.320 The rabbinic text is not the same. 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:17.360 Saying confirm the words is not the same thing as saying remain 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:20.000 in all the words, which is to say abide by all the 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.920 things written in the book of the law. 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.600 What is being taught here in the Greek, in the actual word 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.120 of God, is a different thing from what the rabbis have put 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:30.800 into their wording. 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.880 Confirming the words of the law is not at all the same 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:38.400 thing as abiding in them, obeying them. 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.080 They have changed this because of course, confirming the words of the 00:35:42.080 --> 00:35:47.040 law is more consonant with their religion, which is a religion of 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:50.880 essentially memorizing these things and then not doing them. 00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:54.720 Whereas what the actual Greek says is you have to do the 00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:57.200 law. 00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:57.680 The 00:35:57.680 --> 00:36:02.800 next verse is Galatians 3:13, which is quoting Deuteronomy twenty one twenty 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:07.120 three Paul writes Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law 00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:11.200 by becoming a curse for us, because it is written cursed is 00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:13.360 everyone who hangs on a tree. 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:17.680 Septuagin reads cursed by God is everyone who hangs on a tree. 00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:22.560 Whereas a rabbinic text reads, For a hanged man is God's curse. 00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:27.520 So the difference of everyone or the man who is hanged is 00:36:27.520 --> 00:36:32.400 the major difference here in substance, as well as the overall quote 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.440 being totally different. 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.680 You'll also notice that the rabbis deleted the word from part of 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:40.800 that verse. 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.720 And just as sort of an aside, little reminder of I guess 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:48.720 high school biology class for some of you, the word underlying there 00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:51.360 in the Greek for tree is zoolon, which is where we get 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:56.880 xylem from, one of the parts of the flesh of a tree. 00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:58.560 Just a fun little tidbit. 00:36:58.560 --> 00:37:03.440 The next example Ephesians four twenty six citing to Psalm four four 00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:07.040 Be angry and do not sin, do not let the sun go 00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:08.480 down on your anger. 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:12.800 Then from the Septuagint, be angry and do not sin. 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.720 In this case I am going to read for the Rabbinic text, 00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:19.840 the Jewish translation again, the JPS eighty five. 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:21.840 There are two versions of that essentially. 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:26.400 There's the 1917 and the 1985, and so basically it's the difference 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:29.280 between say the KJV and the ESV. 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:32.560 So tremble and sin no more. 00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:34.080 This is not the same. 00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:38.480 In some cases, in your Old Testament, they will have translated it 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.000 identically, and so if you look at your Old Testament, supposedly based 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.600 on the Masoretic text, it will say, Be angry, and do not 00:37:45.600 --> 00:37:49.440 sin. But then, if you happen to be in a software version 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:51.360 where you can do so, you can look at the underlying word 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.600 and go and look that up in the dictionary, and it will 00:37:53.600 --> 00:37:59.680 say, Be agitated, quiver, quake with fear, be excited, or perturbed. 00:37:59.680 --> 00:38:02.080 You'll note what isn't there. 00:38:02.080 --> 00:38:04.080 Be angry isn't there. 00:38:04.080 --> 00:38:07.040 And so the ESV very clearly this is what I'm reading when 00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:09.840 I say be angry and do not sin, where it matches. 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:15.440 The ESV clearly followed the Septuagint, but did not footnote it merely 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.120 gives the alternative reading in a footnote of it might mean be 00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:22.720 agitated, which is actually what the Hebrew is saying there. 00:38:22.720 --> 00:38:26.720 And so it's another instance where the translators have played games with 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:28.400 God's Word. 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:32.800 They have discovered to follow the Septuagint, which is right, but they 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.560 have not footnoted it correctly, and they didn't do what they should 00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:41.840 have done all along, and simply gone with the Septuagint entirely. 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:45.680 Instead of doing this sort of hodgepodge, where they're trying to fill 00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:52.480 in holes or gaps or things that aren't consonant in the Hebrew. 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:56.880 Our next example is Ephesians five thirty one, which is quoting Genesis 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:58.240 two twenty four. 00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:01.280 Paul writes For this reason a man will leave his father and 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:04.240 mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become 00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:05.360 one flesh. 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:09.200 And the Septuagint repeats the two shall become one flesh. 00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:12.960 Whereas the rabbinic says they shall become one flesh. 00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.920 So the difference there is between the two and they. 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.320 So same meaning in this case, but the wording is exclusive. 00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:25.520 The quotation in Ephesians can only possibly be from the Greek. 00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:28.640 This is an example that we used in the previous episode, but 00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:33.600 it's worth noting again because In the previous episode, it was Christ 00:39:33.600 --> 00:39:38.320 citing the Septuagint, and now it is Paul doing the same. 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:42.800 So we have two different New Testament authors, one recording the words 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.320 of Christ citing the Septuagint, and now we have Paul citing the 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:49.200 Septuagint in the same way. 00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:54.240 The next example, Philippians 1 nineteen, citing to Job thirteen sixteen. 00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:56.880 Job is one of those books where, as Woe said, you may 00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:58.800 have to do a little bit of hunting if you're trying to 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:03.440 find the exact verse because there are some differences, some pervasive differences 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.920 in the book of Job. 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.720 Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers 00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:12.000 in the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000 out for my deliverance. 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:18.400 From the Septuagint, and this shall turn out to my salvation. 00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:21.920 From the Masoretic this will be my salvation. 00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:24.960 Deliverance and salvation here are actually the same word. 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:28.960 This is another case where they have decided to translate it differently 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:31.840 despite being the same underlying Greek term. 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.200 This is the one that's used throughout scripture for salvation. 00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:38.880 And of course, salvation and deliverance are very similar concepts. 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:42.720 There's some nuance there in English, but again, same Greek word. 00:40:42.720 --> 00:40:45.680 Turn out is also the same verb. 00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:49.600 Very clear, the New Testament author is citing to the Old Testament 00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:53.840 in the Greek, in this case the book of Job. 00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:58.240 The next example is from Philippians again, chapter two, verses ten and 00:40:58.240 --> 00:41:03.520 eleven, which is quoting Isaiah forty five twenty-three, which you previously discussed, 00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:06.160 every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. 00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:09.120 I'm very glad that when I made that graphic a couple of 00:41:09.120 --> 00:41:14.480 years ago with the Jesus returning and destroying the pagans, the vaporwave 00:41:14.560 --> 00:41:16.560 edit the quarry posts every week. 00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:18.640 I didn't even know at the time, but I was quoting the 00:41:18.640 --> 00:41:21.840 Septuagint. If I had been quoting the rabbinic, I might not have 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:23.360 liked as much, might not have made 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:23.760 it. 00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:25.760 The 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:29.840 next example is from the book of Second Thessalonians, chapter one, verse 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:37.120 nine, citing to Isaiah two, verses ten, nineteen, and twenty-one. 00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:41.440 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:45.040 of the Lord, and from the glory of his might, from the 00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:49.200 Septuagint, from the glory of his might. 00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:50.400 Same thing. 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:54.960 From the rabbinic, from the From the splendour of his majesty. 00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.080 The word there for majesty, the lexical scope of that word, is 00:42:00.080 --> 00:42:03.120 height, eminence, pride, presumption. 00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:06.000 So again, they've played some games here in order to translate this 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.520 to try and make it match what is said to some degree 00:42:09.680 --> 00:42:11.520 in the New Testament. 00:42:11.520 --> 00:42:15.040 The Greek word is just the same word, the Greek word for 00:42:15.040 --> 00:42:20.880 glory, doxa, which is where of course we get doxology. 00:42:21.040 --> 00:42:24.160 The next example we're moving on to yet another new book. 00:42:24.160 --> 00:42:28.320 This is second Timothy chapter two, verse 19, which is quoting at 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.240 Numbers 16, 5. 00:42:30.240 --> 00:42:35.760 Paul writes, quoting, The Lord knows those who are his, which is 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.280 pretty much a straight quote from the Septuagint God knows those who 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:40.080 are his. 00:42:40.080 --> 00:42:44.640 Whereas the rabbinic reads, The Lord will make known who are his. 00:42:45.120 --> 00:42:49.280 So this shifts into the future in terms of when the knowing 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:50.640 takes place. 00:42:50.640 --> 00:42:52.400 Again, it's a small change. 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.200 This one doesn't really affect theology either way. 00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:58.080 Suppose you might make an argument down the road that it does. 00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:04.320 But functionally, there's no possible quotation because Greek has much more sophisticated 00:43:04.560 --> 00:43:08.080 structure around conveying things like the future tense. 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:12.880 The fact that it would actually be preserved in the rabbinic means 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:14.400 it can't possibly be the same. 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.480 This couldn't be a translation error. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:23.520 There's a particularly famous historical quote that, as it seems, is citing 00:43:23.520 --> 00:43:26.800 to the Septuagint, but of course in Latin. 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:33.760 The next example, Hebrews 1, verse 6, citing to Deuteronomy 32, 43, 00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:37.280 and again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.080 Let all God's angels worship him. 00:43:40.080 --> 00:43:45.840 The Septuagint says, and worship him, you sons of God. 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.200 I would give you the rabbinic, but it is absent. 00:43:49.200 --> 00:43:53.520 This is a line that exists in the Septuagint, cited to very 00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:56.960 clearly here by the author of Hebrews. 00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:00.560 Not present in what the rabbis have. 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:05.200 Incidentally, there's something something worth noting here that I noticed while I 00:44:05.200 --> 00:44:07.920 was making my notes for this episode. 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:14.560 This one verse in the ESV has six footnotes because of how 00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:18.080 much of a mess the Hebrew is. 00:44:18.080 --> 00:44:21.840 If we would just use the Greek, we wouldn't be having to 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:26.560 pepper God's word with footnotes to try to point out where we've 00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:32.400 attempted to fix the deficiencies, the missing bits, the other problems with 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.800 and in the Hebrew. 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:36.960 We should just be using the Septuagint. 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.760 It's what the author of Hebrews very clearly did here 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:42.160 And 00:44:42.160 --> 00:44:44.800 it's notable that we are now in a new book. 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.920 We're not gonna pick the fight over who the author of Hebrews 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:54.000 is. If it wasn't Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Jesus, Paul, Peter, or 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.080 James, then we have yet another author being represented in this list 00:44:58.080 --> 00:45:01.840 of New Testament quotations of the Septuagint. 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:03.920 So for the sake of the argument we're making here, I kinda 00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:05.440 hope it's none of those other guys. 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.040 But either way, this is obviously the Holy Spirit speaking, which is 00:45:09.040 --> 00:45:11.280 why we didn't make a big deal out of oh well Jesus 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:15.280 says this or it is written like it's notable, but that's not 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.120 the reason that this matters. 00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:19.280 It matters because it's in the New Testament. 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:20.960 That's the soul opportunity. 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:23.280 It's emphasized when Jesus said it. 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:26.640 It's emphasized when it says it is written, but it is all 00:45:26.640 --> 00:45:29.360 written. So there's no ambiguity. 00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:32.960 The second example we have from Hebrews is again in chapter one, 00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.720 verses ten through twelve twelve, which is quoting Psalm one hundred two 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.720 verse twenty five through twenty seven, or in the Septuagint one hundred 00:45:40.720 --> 00:45:43.360 one twenty six through twenty eight. 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:47.280 Hebrews reads They will perish but you continue, and they will all 00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.400 grow old like a garment, and like a robe you will fold 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.440 them up, and like a garment they will be changed, but you 00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:56.800 are the same and your years will never run out. 00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:00.320 And the Septuagint reads basically the same, like a cloak, you will 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:01.360 roll them up. 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.880 Whereas the rabbinic reads, like clothing, you will change them. 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:08.160 So the difference there is between change versus roll up. 00:46:08.160 --> 00:46:11.040 Not a big deal, but the distinctive word that is used, roll 00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:14.800 them up is not present in the rabbinic text so therefore this 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.200 is definitely a quotation. 00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:19.680 As 00:46:19.680 --> 00:46:23.040 an aside I just happened to think while going over this particular 00:46:23.040 --> 00:46:25.680 example while we were preparing for this episode. 00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:30.560 In the beginning, there is of course identical to what we find 00:46:30.560 --> 00:46:34.880 both in the book of John, John 1-1, and Genesis 1-1. 00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.720 Happen notice that because I was going over some notes for Genesis 00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:42.880 earlier. Exact same wording there, anarch say. 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:47.440 The next example is Hebrews three verses seven through eleven citing to 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:52.480 Psalm ninety five also seven through eleven, or in the numbering of 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.680 the Septuagint, Psalm ninety four, same verses 00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:00.480 Therefore as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you hear his voice, 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.360 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day 00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.720 of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the 00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:09.520 test, and saw my works for forty years. 00:47:09.520 --> 00:47:13.920 Therefore I was provoked with that generation and said, They always go 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.280 astray in their heart, they have not known my ways, as I 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:21.280 swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:25.600 And then from the Septuagint, do not harden your hearts as in 00:47:25.600 --> 00:47:29.760 the rebellion, same thing as we see in the New Testament, according 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:32.640 to the day of testing in the desert, same thing we see 00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:36.800 in the New Testament, desert wilderness, same thing. 00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:41.120 Then from the Rabbinic, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, 00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:44.800 as on the day at Massa in the wilderness. 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:46.480 Now the things that are being referenced here 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.520 in the Rabbinic text are the things that are being referenced in 00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:54.240 the Septuagint and in the New Testament. 00:47:54.240 --> 00:47:57.600 We know that because we're familiar with the Old Testament, we're familiar 00:47:57.600 --> 00:48:01.440 with the wandering in the desert, the rebellion, all of these things. 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:05.760 But the words that are actually used in the New Testament are 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.120 the words that are present in the Septuagint version. 00:48:09.520 --> 00:48:12.320 The rabbinic version uses different words. 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:17.520 It doesn't matter, it does for accuracy's sake perhaps, but it doesn't 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.520 matter that they are referencing the same event, when you look at 00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:25.520 what is being quoted, the quotation is pulling the words that are 00:48:25.520 --> 00:48:29.440 present in the Greek, not the words that are present in the 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:33.040 rabbinic text. 00:48:33.040 --> 00:48:33.200 The 00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:38.000 next example is Hebrews 8, 8 through 12, which is quoting Jeremiah 00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:43.440 31, verses 31 through 34, or in the Septuagint, note the change 00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.560 here, chapter 38, 31 through thirty four. 00:48:46.640 --> 00:48:50.400 So I mentioned the last episode, the rabbis just chopped up Jeremiah 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:52.960 entirely and rearranged it to tell a different story. 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:55.280 So we go from chapter thirty one to thirty eight for the 00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:56.160 same passage. 00:48:56.160 --> 00:48:57.760 That's how much they changed it. 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:01.120 I think they added some things too, but you're looking at some 00:49:01.120 --> 00:49:04.960 fundamentally different ways of things being told, even when they don't mess 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:06.560 with the text itself. 00:49:06.560 --> 00:49:09.200 They treat it like a ransom note. 00:49:09.200 --> 00:49:12.080 Hebrews reads, It will not be like the covenant that I made 00:49:12.080 --> 00:49:14.560 with their fathers on the day when I took them by the 00:49:14.560 --> 00:49:17.760 hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.960 in my covenant, and I had no regard for them, says the 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:24.640 Lord. The clause in Hebrews eight nine, and I did not care 00:49:24.640 --> 00:49:28.160 for them, says the Lord, or did not have regard for them 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.400 is very similar. 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:34.080 It's the same underlying in the Septuagint, for they did not remain 00:49:34.080 --> 00:49:36.480 in my covenant and I neglected them. 00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:40.640 The difference in the rabbinic text is that it says, when I 00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:42.880 took them by the hand to bring them out of the land 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:46.800 of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:48.240 declares the Lord. 00:49:48.240 --> 00:49:51.520 So difference is though I was their husband and not I disregarded 00:49:51.520 --> 00:49:54.480 them, which is just a fundamentally different formulation. 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.200 It's very clearly not a translation issue. 00:49:57.200 --> 00:50:02.320 It's not remotely the same text that's being used here. 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:06.480 This next one is an example that I suspect everyone knows by 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:12.560 now, from previous episodes and from other discussions, Hebrews ten, verses five 00:50:12.560 --> 00:50:16.240 through seven, citing to Psalm forty, verses six through eight, or the 00:50:16.240 --> 00:50:20.960 numbering of the Septuagint, Psalm thirty-nine, verses seven through nine. 00:50:21.200 --> 00:50:26.160 Consequently, when Christ came into the world he said, Sacrifices and offerings 00:50:26.160 --> 00:50:29.360 you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me, 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.880 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:36.480 Then I said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:39.120 God, as it is written of me, in the book of the 00:50:39.120 --> 00:50:45.520 scroll. The relevant part there from the Septuagint, but you prepared a 00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:46.800 body for me. 00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:50.880 The same thing that we have here in the New Testament. 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:52.400 This is a case where 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:55.120 the Hebrew just doesn't make any sense. 00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:56.800 We try to make sense of it, we try to pretend that 00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:01.040 it's some sort of weird shemitic idiom, but it says, ears you 00:51:01.040 --> 00:51:03.200 have dug for me. 00:51:03.200 --> 00:51:06.720 And so exegetes will try to explain it away by saying, well, 00:51:06.720 --> 00:51:10.960 it's he's saying God listens to him or whatever they try to 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:12.080 say, but it's not. 00:51:12.240 --> 00:51:13.600 It's Hebrew gibberish. 00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:17.520 We don't know what this means because it's not scripture. 00:51:17.520 --> 00:51:20.720 Scripture is, but you prepared a body for me. 00:51:20.720 --> 00:51:24.960 Incidentally, it is the same Greek verb for prepared, and it is 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:29.440 the same Greek noun for body soma. 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:30.000 The 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.160 next example is Hebrews ten thirty seven through thirty eight, which is 00:51:34.160 --> 00:51:38.080 quoting Habakkuk two verses three through four. 00:51:38.080 --> 00:51:42.080 Hebrews reads For yet a very little while the coming one will 00:51:42.080 --> 00:51:44.400 come and will not delay. 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:48.160 And the Septuagint reads If he is late, wait for him because 00:51:48.160 --> 00:51:52.240 the one coming will be present, and he will not tarry. 00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:56.000 So there's a personification of the presence there, of a coming one. 00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:00.400 The rabbinic uses a neuter, says it will surely come, it will 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.480 not delay And then the second portion of this quote is as 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:09.840 a composite quote here, Hebrews 30, 10 38, but my righteous one 00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:13.120 shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has 00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:17.840 no pleasure in him, which is a quotation from Habakkuk two four, 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.160 which contains If he shrinks back, my soul is not pleased, whereas 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:28.240 Rabbinic lacks shrinking back entirely, and says, instead, Behold, his soul is 00:52:28.240 --> 00:52:29.760 puffed up. 00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:33.520 So we're losing the personification of the coming one for a neuter 00:52:34.160 --> 00:52:38.560 and the shrinks back because behold his soul is puffed up. 00:52:38.560 --> 00:52:42.640 So again, it's not remotely the same quotation, and Hebrews is very 00:52:42.640 --> 00:52:47.920 explicitly quoting the Greek scripture. 00:52:48.080 --> 00:52:52.800 The nine Greek words that comprise the core of that quotation are 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:57.520 identical between the New Testament and the Old Testament. 00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:03.200 The next example is Hebrews 11, verse 21, citing to Genesis 47, 00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:07.840 31. By faith Jacob, when dying blessed each of the sons of 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:12.000 Joseph, bowing in worship upon the head of his staff, and then 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:16.800 from the Septuagint, and Israel bowed in worship upon the head of 00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:18.800 his staff. 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:23.680 The The rabbinic text has instead Israel bowed himself upon the head 00:53:23.680 --> 00:53:26.160 of his bed. 00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:30.000 Now of course, perhaps the most obvious change there is first that 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:35.440 they change staff to bed, but they also removed in worship. 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:37.600 They changed the nature of this act. 00:53:37.600 --> 00:53:41.360 They changed what is happening here with Israel. 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:45.360 Israel bowed in worship upon the head of his staff, not just 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:47.440 bowed himself upon the head of his bed. 00:53:48.240 --> 00:53:50.560 They changed the theology of this verse. 00:53:50.560 --> 00:53:54.640 They removed, similar to how they have removed the word God in 00:53:54.640 --> 00:53:57.600 other places, they removed in worship here. 00:53:59.280 --> 00:53:59.600 And 00:53:59.600 --> 00:54:03.200 this is one of numerous cases where the difference in Hebrew between 00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:06.160 bed and staff is entirely in the vowels. 00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:11.760 So until the Masoretes finally decided the lie that they were going 00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:15.680 to pass on to the Christian church a thousand years ago, you 00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:18.880 could say was ambiguous because it was entirely oral tradition. 00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:22.320 Thankfully, God preserved the Greek scripture for us in the New Testament, 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.960 as well as in the Septuagint itself. 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:29.600 Our next example is from Hebrews 12:5 through 6, which is quoting 00:54:29.600 --> 00:54:31.520 Proverbs 3:11 through 12. 00:54:31.520 --> 00:54:34.480 This is the last quotation from Hebrews. 00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.760 And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:41.200 My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give him or 00:54:41.200 --> 00:54:44.720 give up when he corrects you, for the Lord scourges the one 00:54:44.720 --> 00:54:49.200 he loves and chastises every son he accepts. 00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:53.360 And the word here for chastises it means disciplines the weak. 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:55.520 Technically the word is flogging. 00:54:55.520 --> 00:54:58.480 So this is not gentle chastisement. 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.560 This is not gentle discipline. 00:55:00.560 --> 00:55:04.880 The Lord's discipline is flogging. 00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:09.120 Septuagent Proverbs three twelve reads for whom the Lord loves he rebukes 00:55:09.200 --> 00:55:12.160 and scourges every son whom he receives. 00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:15.840 Whereas a rabbinic reads, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:18.800 as a father the Son in whom he delights. 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:23.440 So here we have scourges every son entirely removed. 00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:26.720 God says if you love your son, you'll flog him. 00:55:26.720 --> 00:55:28.160 That's what God does to us. 00:55:28.160 --> 00:55:32.560 When we're chastised, it's not some airy metaphor. 00:55:32.560 --> 00:55:35.520 The flogging that we receive in this life for our sins is 00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:39.440 sometimes very overt, sometimes it's not obvious, and sometimes it doesn't seem 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:40.560 like you get it. 00:55:40.560 --> 00:55:43.920 But the fact that it does sometimes happen is a very strong 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:49.600 theological point and one that the rabbis deleted entirely. 00:55:50.080 --> 00:55:50.320 The 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:55.120 next example is James four verse six, citing to Proverbs three, verse 00:55:55.200 --> 00:55:56.240 thirty four 00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:02.240 But he gives more grace, therefore it says God opposes the arrogant, 00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:07.120 but gives grace to the humble From the Septuagint The Lord opposes 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:10.560 the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble. 00:56:10.560 --> 00:56:15.360 Then from the rabbinic, toward the scorners he is scornful, but to 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.520 the humble he gives favour. 00:56:17.520 --> 00:56:20.560 And so the second part of that is perhaps the same sort 00:56:20.560 --> 00:56:23.120 of sentiment. 00:56:23.120 --> 00:56:28.960 The first is less so, but again you'll note they removed the 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.880 word God or the word Lord, depending on which one, obviously meaning 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:33.520 the same thing here 00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:40.640 If you account for the difference between God and Lord, Kurios versus 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:46.000 Theos, the underlying Greek is otherwise identical. 00:56:46.240 --> 00:56:49.120 The only thing that has changed here is that the New Testament 00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:53.680 author has decided to say God opposes instead of the Lord opposes. 00:56:53.680 --> 00:56:58.240 The rabbis simply have something else in their text. 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.920 Although that is the only example from James, it is notable, we're 00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:07.200 talking about the first bishop of Jerusalem and the half-brother of Jesus. 00:57:07.200 --> 00:57:11.760 So the fact that James is also quoting the Greek as scripture, 00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:16.160 again, we're just we're beating this point to death because once you 00:57:16.160 --> 00:57:19.440 look at the New Testament, nothing else is necessary. 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:23.280 We move on then to 1 Peter 2.6, which is again quoting 00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:24.800 Isaiah 28, 16. 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:28.400 We We've previously discussed that verse, but this is a case where 00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:31.440 Peter and Paul are both quoting the Septuagint. 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:36.320 Again, look at the guys we're talking about: James, Peter, Paul, Jesus, 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:41.200 Matthew. Like these are not the guys that we are told would 00:57:41.200 --> 00:57:44.800 be speaking and quoting Greek and using Greek for theology. 00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:49.280 And yet New Testament is replete with these examples. 00:57:50.720 --> 00:57:54.880 The next example, still in the book of first Peter, two, verse 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:59.040 nine, citing to Exodus nineteen, verse six. 00:57:59.040 --> 00:58:03.040 But you were a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 00:58:03.040 --> 00:58:07.200 a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies 00:58:07.200 --> 00:58:11.200 of him who called you out of darkness, into his marvellous light. 00:58:11.200 --> 00:58:15.280 Then the Septuagint, and you shall be for me a royal priesthood 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:17.120 and a holy nation. 00:58:17.120 --> 00:58:22.000 Same two things there, royal priesthood, holy nation. 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:27.200 The rabbinic text has instead, You shall be to me a kingdom 00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:28.400 of priests. 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.920 Incidentally they did keep the and a holy nation. 00:58:32.560 --> 00:58:34.320 But those are different words. 00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:38.640 These are different terms, and again they are trying to make this 00:58:38.640 --> 00:58:42.400 into a statement that they are going to have this sort of 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:47.360 kingdom on earth because that's what they want, that's their entire theology. 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:51.360 Is that the Jews are special, they're going to rule everyone else 00:58:51.520 --> 00:58:53.360 and destroy everyone else. 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:55.520 That's ultimately their theology. 00:58:55.520 --> 00:58:59.360 They've changed the text here to align with what they want it 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:02.240 to say, as if that's going to convince God that he should 00:59:02.240 --> 00:59:03.760 change his plan. 00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:07.520 But the salient point, of course, is that you have the identical 00:59:07.520 --> 00:59:11.920 statement here, in the Greek, in the Septuagint, being used by the 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:16.720 New Testament author, being used by Peter in his epistle. 00:59:16.720 --> 00:59:20.800 Our next example is from first Peter two twenty two, quoting Isaiah 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:22.400 fifty-three nine. 00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:27.200 Peter says, quoting, He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in 00:59:27.200 --> 00:59:28.160 his mouth. 00:59:28.160 --> 00:59:32.800 Septuag says, Because he did no lawlessness or sin, nor was deceit 00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:34.160 found in his mouth. 00:59:34.240 --> 00:59:38.800 There's the case where the ancient textual witnesses differ on whether it 00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:43.520 says lawlessness or sin, but obviously those are essentially synonyms. 00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:46.800 The rabbinic text says on the other hand, he had done no 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:49.760 violence and there was no deceit in his mouth. 00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:54.800 So the difference between violence and sin there is the substantive non 00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:57.520 translation dichotomy. 00:59:57.520 --> 01:00:00.320 It's not a case where you could possibly get from one place 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:01.040 to the other. 01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:04.000 And it's frequently the case where we find violence used in place 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.400 of sin by the rabbis. 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:10.320 In this case that is not scriptural. 01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:10.480 The 01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.520 next example still in the book of first Peter is chapter four 01:00:13.600 --> 01:00:16.960 verse eighteen citing to Proverbs eleven thirty one 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:21.840 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.440 ungodly in the sinner? 01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:28.320 And then the Septuagint If indeed the righteous is scarcely saved, what 01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:31.520 will become of the ungodly and the sinner? 01:00:31.520 --> 01:00:36.640 Other than that one word, identical, from the Rabbinic, if the righteous 01:00:36.640 --> 01:00:43.360 is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner? 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:48.560 There's a one-word difference between the Greek and the Greek of the 01:00:48.560 --> 01:00:52.560 New Testament, because the author decided to drop the word indeed, dropped 01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:55.120 what is a particle there in the Greek. 01:00:55.120 --> 01:01:00.720 The rabbinic has a completely a radically different statement. 01:01:00.720 --> 01:01:06.160 The New Testament statement citing to the same Old Testament statement is 01:01:06.160 --> 01:01:12.800 a theological statement of the impossibility of being saved, absent God's miraculous 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:17.600 intervention, whereas the rabbis have changed it to if the righteous is 01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:22.640 repaid on earth, okay perhaps, how much more the wicked and the 01:01:22.640 --> 01:01:26.320 sinner? This is a different religion. 01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:27.600 It's a different theology. 01:01:27.600 --> 01:01:29.680 This is one of those times where you can try to baptize 01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:32.160 it as a Christian and make it into something that is consonant 01:01:32.160 --> 01:01:35.040 with the rest of Scripture and what we actually actually believe what 01:01:35.040 --> 01:01:37.200 we know is right. 01:01:37.200 --> 01:01:41.280 But that's not something that we should be doing, because it's not 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:42.640 what the Old Testament says. 01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:45.600 What the Old Testament says is the same thing the New Testament 01:01:45.600 --> 01:01:47.920 says, which is why Peter cited 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:48.240 it 01:01:50.080 --> 01:01:54.400 Our next example is from first Peter five five, and this is 01:01:54.400 --> 01:02:01.920 also actually repeated in James 4:6, quoting Proverbs again three thirty four. 01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:06.000 Peter and James both quote God opposes the proud but gives grace 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:06.960 to the humble. 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:10.400 The Septuagint reads, The Lord resists the proud but gives grace to 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:11.040 the humble. 01:02:11.040 --> 01:02:15.280 Whereas the Rabbinic says surely he scorns the scorners, but to the 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:17.120 humble he gives favor. 01:02:17.120 --> 01:02:20.960 So again it's just a radically different way of phrasing it versus 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:24.480 identical quote. 01:02:24.640 --> 01:02:30.480 Then our final example is appropriately from the book of Revelation 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:37.120 Revelation two twenty seven twelve five and nineteen fifteen citing to Psalm 01:02:37.120 --> 01:02:37.600 two hundred nine 01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:41.280 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when 01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:45.520 earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received 01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:47.200 authority from my father 01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:52.160 then from the Septuagint th. 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:55.680 shall shepherd them with an iron rod, and like a potter's vessel 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:57.920 you will shatter them. 01:02:58.240 --> 01:03:02.560 Then we will read from the rabbinic text, which is a little 01:03:02.560 --> 01:03:07.360 different. You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:10.480 them in pieces, like a potter's vessel. 01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:15.600 Okay, so the second part of that verse is quite similar. 01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:20.400 But you shall break them with an iron rod is a fundamentally 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:24.880 different thing from saying you shall shepherd them with an iron rod. 01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:27.520 This is again one of those cases where part of it is 01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:34.960 a so-called revocalization, which is to say playing games with the diacritics, 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.840 because you can change, again, as you all know by now, you 01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.800 can change the vowels in a Hebrew word, simply by changing the 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.360 little bits that you've marked along it. 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:46.400 And so it could be you shall rule them with a rod 01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:50.560 of iron, but that's still different from saying you shall shepherd them 01:03:50.560 --> 01:03:51.520 with a rod of iron. 01:03:51.520 --> 01:03:54.400 It's a fundamentally different formulation of God's 01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:58.880 relationship with his children, with his church. 01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.480 And the rabbis have handed us something that is simply not what 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:04.800 is cited in the New Testament. 01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:07.760 And the reason again, as we have pointed out so many times 01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:12.400 that the New Testament author is citing the Greek is because the 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:14.000 Greek is God's word. 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.440 The Greek is also incidentally the thing to which he had access, 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:19.360 but it is the Greek that is God's word. 01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:22.480 It is the Greek that is being cited here, and the rabbis 01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:27.280 have changed it and made some other text and tried to pass 01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:31.200 it off as God's word. 01:04:31.200 --> 01:04:31.360 I 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:35.280 think it's fitting that we end with the gospel writer John in 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.200 Revelation quoting three separate times one of the Psalms. 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:44.080 I think that brief encapsulation really just hammers home the point how 01:04:44.080 --> 01:04:49.760 fundamental the connection between the New Testament and the Septuagint is. 01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:51.280 It's one and the same thing. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.920 Calling it the Old Testament and the New Testament. 01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:57.280 To us today, it almost makes sense because we think of the 01:04:57.280 --> 01:05:00.480 Old Testament being Hebrew and the New Testament being Greek. 01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:02.160 Scripture is Greek. 01:05:02.160 --> 01:05:05.920 The word of God is breathed out in Greek. 01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:10.960 So we have now closed our case here. 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:11.760 We rest. 01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:16.080 This is the prosecution, making its case for the Septuagint and against 01:05:16.080 --> 01:05:17.840 the rabbinic text. 01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:21.760 We have no new evidence to enter into the record. 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:24.720 So now Cory and I are each going to essentially give our 01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:28.240 closing arguments for arguments for the Septuagint based on everything that we 01:05:28.240 --> 01:05:30.640 presented over these past seven episodes. 01:05:30.640 --> 01:05:34.320 As I mentioned previously, the next episode next week will be the 01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:37.520 bonus episode talking about future work in the church. 01:05:37.520 --> 01:05:40.560 It's not related to the case for the Septuagint. 01:05:40.560 --> 01:05:43.680 It's basically, okay, I believe the Septuagint is scripture now. 01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:46.880 What? Which is why we're considering that to be outside of the 01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:50.800 Septuagint series that we're presenting here, because everything we've talked about for 01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:53.440 these seven episodes is factual. 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:57.280 We've obviously given our own framing along the way and made our 01:05:57.280 --> 01:06:01.680 arguments as we went, but the facts are not disputed. 01:06:01.680 --> 01:06:03.200 You don't get to have your own facts. 01:06:03.200 --> 01:06:05.520 You can reach your own conclusions and either be right or wrong 01:06:05.520 --> 01:06:06.720 in those conclusions. 01:06:06.720 --> 01:06:09.760 But the facts we believe speak for themselves. 01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:13.200 So I'm going to simply rehash what we've covered in these seven 01:06:13.200 --> 01:06:17.600 episodes to refresh your memory, and then we're gonna rest. 01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:22.160 We are done with what we have to say about the Septuagint. 01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:25.600 The Greek Old Testament is the Bible of Jesus and the Apostles 01:06:25.600 --> 01:06:26.800 in the early church. 01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:30.640 We have proved that beyond any shadow of a doubt We went 01:06:30.640 --> 01:06:34.080 through six dozen verses in the New Testament that can only possibly 01:06:34.080 --> 01:06:35.840 be from the Old Testament. 01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:41.520 We looked at the history of how the church viewed the Septuagint 01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:44.880 and then when it lost the view of the Septuagint. 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:48.160 And what we made clear early on was that although the Greek 01:06:48.160 --> 01:06:50.640 Old Testament was the Bible of Jesus and the Apostles in the 01:06:50.640 --> 01:06:55.440 early church, when the early church became the medieval church and the 01:06:55.440 --> 01:07:00.240 Septuagint ceased to be its Bible, there was no great council, there 01:07:00.240 --> 01:07:04.720 was no great vote, there was no fight, there was no discussion. 01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:10.000 It just happened, and it happened due to the evolution of language. 01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:14.480 When you look at the Old Testament, what you find is that 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:19.040 when the Israelites, when the Hebrews come up, they're almost always being 01:07:19.040 --> 01:07:20.720 wicked and idolatrous. 01:07:20.720 --> 01:07:21.760 Almost always. 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:25.280 You can turn to almost any page, at least ninety percent of 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:29.280 the time in the Old Testament, when it's talking about the Israelites, 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:33.840 they're doing something evil and wicked, and God is lamenting it and 01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:35.280 he's punishing them. 01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:40.160 And so language is important because the Hebrew language was killed by 01:07:40.160 --> 01:07:44.960 God. When God shattered the northern kingdom and then he shattered the 01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:51.440 southern kingdom, they were given over into rule by foreign conquerors, one 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:56.480 after another, and they lost Hebrew, and it was replaced with Aramaic, 01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:59.920 which was the lingua franca of the conquering armies. 01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:03.840 And then they lost Aramaic, and they began speaking Greek, which was 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:06.720 the lingua franca of their next conquerors. 01:08:06.720 --> 01:08:09.600 And then after the end of what is recorded in the New 01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:11.760 Testament, they lost Greek. 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:15.760 And this now we're talking about the early church, lost Greek, and 01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:19.680 switched to Latin, which incidentally, if you look at the old Greek 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:25.520 Daniel, is prophesied more clearly than is found in the Theodosian's Daniel 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:30.080 that used both in the Septuagint and in the rabbinic text. 01:08:30.080 --> 01:08:32.000 As we said at the beginning, we're not going to pick the 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:33.920 fight over some of those variations. 01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:39.840 It's just notable that this linguistic evolution where one language is destroyed 01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:43.680 and replaced by another is part of God's wrath. 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.600 It's part of God's plan. 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:48.640 And when we look at what was done to the Hebrews, it 01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:52.000 was done as punishment from God. 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:55.040 Not only did he take their land, not only did he take 01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:58.960 their language, emiscedenated the northern kingdom out of existence. 01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:00.880 That's where the Samaritans came from. 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.240 They were wiped out as a race by being mixed with foreign 01:09:04.240 --> 01:09:08.960 neighbors. This is what God does to people when he destroys them. 01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:11.600 So by the time we get to the first century and we're 01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.040 looking in the New Testament era of Jesus and the apostles, all 01:09:15.040 --> 01:09:16.320 they had was the Greek. 01:09:16.320 --> 01:09:19.440 There was probably some Aramaic that may have been used liturgically. 01:09:19.440 --> 01:09:21.120 In fact, we know that to be the case. 01:09:21.120 --> 01:09:24.160 There may have been some Hebrew used liturgically as well. 01:09:24.160 --> 01:09:27.440 There is a clear case to be made for certain liturgical use 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:31.040 and repetition of Aramaic, but we know that because we know it 01:09:31.360 --> 01:09:34.080 had to be translated, because nobody could understand it. 01:09:34.080 --> 01:09:37.200 So when we talk about dead language, that's a technical term. 01:09:37.200 --> 01:09:40.400 A dead language is one that is no longer spoken, it is 01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:43.200 no longer in common use, it's no longer evolving. 01:09:43.200 --> 01:09:46.480 So not only can't people speak it, but it's not doing anything 01:09:46.480 --> 01:09:49.600 anymore. English today is not a dead language. 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:53.200 Latin is a dead language, and it's dead for the specific reason 01:09:53.200 --> 01:09:54.560 it's no longer evolving. 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:57.280 Now it doesn't mean it's lost entirely, it doesn't mean it's totally 01:09:57.280 --> 01:10:01.120 vanished, like we have with some ancient languages, we don't know anything 01:10:01.120 --> 01:10:02.000 about them. 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:04.720 Hebrew was lost to the point that there was no one left 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:07.840 who could speak it, it wasn't used conversationally. 01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:10.640 Even Aramaic was lost to the point that when you look in 01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:15.360 the New Testament, in the cases where it uses Aramaic terms, it 01:10:15.360 --> 01:10:16.720 quotes them in line. 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:23.520 You'll frequently see things like Marinatha and Golgotha are translated in line 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:25.920 so that you can understand what they are. 01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:29.840 Because the readers of those epistles and those gospels in that day 01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:31.440 wouldn't have known otherwise. 01:10:31.440 --> 01:10:35.120 And the readers were overwhelmingly Jews. 01:10:35.120 --> 01:10:38.160 Between the middle of the third century BC and roughly the end 01:10:38.160 --> 01:10:41.920 of the first century BC, the entirety of the Old Testament was 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:46.080 translated into Greek, which means it was not all done at once. 01:10:46.080 --> 01:10:57.520 So when we talk about the Septuagint, we're talking about the Pentateu 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.400 Jesus and the apostles received it as Scripture. 01:11:00.400 --> 01:11:03.760 Every time they said it is written as it is written, Thus 01:11:03.760 --> 01:11:08.080 says the Lord, they were quoting Greek scripture. 01:11:08.080 --> 01:11:10.320 There are no biblical languages. 01:11:10.320 --> 01:11:14.160 There is one biblical language, and that language is Greek. 01:11:14.160 --> 01:11:17.440 What we find in the first four centuries of the church is 01:11:17.440 --> 01:11:23.520 that other than Origen around 180 and his follow on Eusebius, and 01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:27.840 then Jerome later on, all of whom were scholars, no one else 01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:28.480 knew Hebrew. 01:11:29.200 --> 01:11:32.720 It was not used for debate, it was not used for theology, 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:35.440 it was not used as a basis for scripture. 01:11:35.440 --> 01:11:40.240 And the only reason that Origen and Eusebius knew any Hebrew was 01:11:40.240 --> 01:11:42.960 specifically to deal with the fact that they had all these texts 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:43.840 floating around. 01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:48.560 It was entirely a scholarly endeavor, which is very distinct from a 01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:50.240 theological question. 01:11:50.240 --> 01:11:54.640 There was no use of Hebrew theologically whatsoever in the early church 01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:58.000 When there were scholarly inquiries to figure out what do we do 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:01.760 with these various texts floating around, the principal case that Origin was 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:04.640 trying to make was that the Septuagint is what we should be 01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:07.040 using. In fact, when you look at the quotes from many of 01:12:07.040 --> 01:12:10.160 those men in that day, they were very clear, we used one 01:12:10.160 --> 01:12:11.600 last episode. 01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:15.120 They said flat out the Jews were tampering with scripture. 01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:19.520 That is not a new twenty first century conclusion from internet Nazis. 01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.280 The early church fathers said point blank, we know for a fact 01:12:23.440 --> 01:12:25.440 the Jews have tampered with Scripture. 01:12:25.440 --> 01:12:27.840 This is a century or more after Christ. 01:12:28.080 --> 01:12:31.440 We've laid out ad nauseum in the last few episodes. 01:12:31.440 --> 01:12:34.160 It's no surprise that the people who murdered the Word of God 01:12:34.400 --> 01:12:36.720 would also despise the Word of God. 01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:41.360 If they'll kill the man, they will certainly destroy what is written. 01:12:41.360 --> 01:12:47.600 So when Jerome translated the rabbinic text of his day into Latin 01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:53.360 unilaterally with no permission from anyone, over the direct objections of Augustine, 01:12:53.360 --> 01:12:55.440 but no one else really fought. 01:12:55.440 --> 01:12:58.240 As I said, there was no church council to ratify that or 01:12:58.240 --> 01:13:01.440 to say it was okay, but the problem that was being solved 01:13:01.440 --> 01:13:04.240 in that immediate moment was that they were losing Greek. 01:13:04.240 --> 01:13:06.080 Another language is being lost. 01:13:06.080 --> 01:13:09.680 So because the West could no longer speak or read Greek, they 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:10.720 needed Latin. 01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:11.760 That was all they understood. 01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:14.160 That was the lingua franca of that day. 01:13:14.160 --> 01:13:19.120 So when Jerome finished his work, without permission for the textual basis, 01:13:19.120 --> 01:13:21.840 at least it was a Latin Bible, and it stuck around for 01:13:21.840 --> 01:13:22.640 a long time. 01:13:22.640 --> 01:13:27.680 It still took about four centuries before Alquin of York and Charlemagne 01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:30.800 made official that this was to be the Western Bible that everyone 01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:34.240 was to use as a basis for reproducing additional copies. 01:13:34.240 --> 01:13:38.480 And Alquin of York specifically worked on figuring out what Jerome's actual 01:13:38.480 --> 01:13:39.520 Vulgate was. 01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:45.120 Because again, there was a perpetuation, a proliferation of different versions of 01:13:45.120 --> 01:13:46.640 what was called the Vulgate. 01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:48.800 He had to figure out, you know, the same sort of textual 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:49.920 problems that we have today. 01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:54.240 It's nothing new to have textual problems with differing manuscripts. 01:13:54.240 --> 01:13:56.720 It's always gonna happen with copying errors. 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:59.600 In fact, Corey and I were working on the last episode. 01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:02.720 We had that very problem with the digital file that I sent 01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:05.040 him. The file I sent him was not the same as the 01:14:05.040 --> 01:14:06.160 file that he received. 01:14:06.160 --> 01:14:07.280 We tried to figure that out. 01:14:07.280 --> 01:14:08.400 It was impossible. 01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:11.440 These transmission errors are not anything new. 01:14:11.440 --> 01:14:14.720 They're not inexplicable to us. 01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:20.000 Between 400 and 600, we had Gregory the Great, the Pope, who 01:14:20.320 --> 01:14:26.080 was the first to really very strongly push for an allegorical reading 01:14:26.080 --> 01:14:26.960 of scripture. 01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:28.800 Now he didn't do it to the exclusion of other things. 01:14:29.040 --> 01:14:30.640 He didn't really do anything wrong. 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:35.440 But he popularized it in a way that in subsequent centuries became 01:14:35.440 --> 01:14:39.840 dominant to the point when other writers were writing about scripture, they 01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:46.240 increasingly relied on allegorical readings to the exclusion of the literal word. 01:14:46.240 --> 01:14:49.840 Greek was entirely lost in the West, which meant the the schism 01:14:50.400 --> 01:14:52.000 between East and West 01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:58.480 caused a situation where there was no observation of the Septuagint text 01:14:58.480 --> 01:15:00.000 in the West whatsoever. 01:15:00.160 --> 01:15:01.200 it never came up. 01:15:01.200 --> 01:15:03.200 And they didn't debate over that either. 01:15:03.200 --> 01:15:04.400 Which is kind of fascinating. 01:15:04.400 --> 01:15:06.880 You think of all the fights that they had, the fact that 01:15:06.880 --> 01:15:10.880 the textual basis for scripture itself didn't come into play would have 01:15:10.880 --> 01:15:13.040 been more prominent. 01:15:13.040 --> 01:15:16.720 By the eleventh century, what we see is that Jews have sprung 01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:22.800 up throughout Europe, they have made their way into numerous different European 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:25.600 nations and they've set up shop pretty much on their own. 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:29.680 You know, there's some integration of sorts, there's commerce. 01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:34.800 What this meant was that they would begin to produce and proliferate 01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:41.360 their own rabbinic writings, their wicked blasphemous teachings, internally to their communities. 01:15:41.360 --> 01:15:44.240 They weren't selling this stuff, they weren't giving it to others. 01:15:44.320 --> 01:15:48.080 In fact, often on pain of death, those writings were to be 01:15:48.560 --> 01:15:49.840 kept secret. 01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:54.080 In the 10th, 11th, 12th century, the fact that things were in 01:15:54.080 --> 01:15:58.560 Hebrew was basically a secret code that was only known to Jews. 01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:02.160 This meant that they were able to practice their black magic and 01:16:02.160 --> 01:16:04.400 do all these wicked things that they were doing and teach the 01:16:04.400 --> 01:16:07.200 things that they were teaching and say the prayers that they were 01:16:07.200 --> 01:16:10.880 praying without any Christian princes knowing how evil they were, because they 01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:12.000 couldn't understand him. 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:14.560 You see some guy next to you who's talking in a foreign 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:16.000 language, you don't know what he's saying. 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:18.880 He could be telling a joke, he could be giving instructions for 01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:19.600 your murder. 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:21.200 It would sound the same to your ears. 01:16:21.200 --> 01:16:23.600 You can't tell the difference. 01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:27.040 And around the 1200s, we have the Augustinian scholars at the school 01:16:27.040 --> 01:16:31.520 of Saint Victor strongly advocating for the primacy of the literal historical 01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:36.800 sense. This was a marked departure from the allegorical readings that the 01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:39.600 church had seen for a number of centuries. 01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:44.720 This was important because at this time we had Rashi's commentary produced 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:48.400 previously available in some of these communities. 01:16:48.400 --> 01:16:50.240 So when Andrew of St. 01:16:50.240 --> 01:16:57.360 Victor adopted his school's of hermeneutic of literal interpretation, word came to 01:16:57.360 --> 01:17:03.440 him that this rashi commentary, this rabbinic commentary on the Old Testament, 01:17:03.440 --> 01:17:06.160 had a lot of really literal readings. 01:17:06.160 --> 01:17:10.320 And so that then became a resource for the church. 01:17:10.320 --> 01:17:13.840 Even though they did not have a favorable view of Jews at 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:18.960 all, they still did not distinguish between the fact that the people 01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:22.400 that they disliked who had murdered Christ should not be a source 01:17:22.400 --> 01:17:23.600 of influence. 01:17:23.600 --> 01:17:27.120 Because when they were looking at the church having produced all these 01:17:27.120 --> 01:17:31.440 allegorical readings, and then they look at their rabbis next door with 01:17:31.440 --> 01:17:35.680 Rashi's commentaries saying things are very literal and to their ears, they 01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:36.960 seem like good arguments. 01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:38.800 They seem like sound arguments. 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:41.360 The danger was they probably were. 01:17:41.360 --> 01:17:47.040 Some of the were actually good faithful Exegetical arguments from scripture from 01:17:47.040 --> 01:17:48.160 a rabbi. 01:17:48.160 --> 01:17:52.480 That's exactly what Satan needed in that moment because it brought rabbis 01:17:52.480 --> 01:17:53.440 back to the table. 01:17:53.440 --> 01:17:55.680 When you bring rabbis back to the table, you got to bring 01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:57.200 Hebrew back to the table. 01:17:57.200 --> 01:18:00.400 And so despite the fact that in twelve forty we had the 01:18:00.400 --> 01:18:04.240 Trial the Talmud in Paris, where one of the very few Jewish 01:18:04.240 --> 01:18:08.560 converts in the entire history, after about the first or second century, 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:14.240 Nicholas Donan exposed both Pope Gregory II and King Louis II, these 01:18:14.240 --> 01:18:18.400 blasphemous black magic practices of the Jews which had been concealed in 01:18:18.400 --> 01:18:21.840 Hebrew. This man who knew Hebrew went to them and said, Look, 01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:25.040 here's what they're doing, here's what they're writings say, here's what they're 01:18:25.040 --> 01:18:26.800 praying among you. 01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:31.360 And the Christian prince and the Christian Pope was rightly outraged, put 01:18:31.360 --> 01:18:33.680 the Talmud on trial, and they burned it. 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:37.120 They destroyed probably billions of dollars worth of Jewish writings. 01:18:37.120 --> 01:18:39.360 And they hate King Louis to this day for it. 01:18:39.360 --> 01:18:41.520 They never give up a grudge. 01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:48.320 Unfortunately, when the decision was made that these Jews' writings are evil, 01:18:48.320 --> 01:18:49.440 they solved the wrong problem. 01:18:50.080 --> 01:18:52.400 They kept the Jews and they burned the books. 01:18:52.400 --> 01:18:54.560 They didn't get rid of the evil by getting rid of the 01:18:54.560 --> 01:18:56.880 books. The evil remained. 01:18:56.880 --> 01:19:00.320 And so within thirty years we have Nicholas of Lyra, who is 01:19:00.320 --> 01:19:04.560 called the ape of Solomon Rashi, publishing the single most influential and 01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:07.840 widely circulated biblical commentary of the later Middle Ages. 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:08.800 And what did he do? 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:12.240 He laundered Rashi's arguments for the rest of the church. 01:19:12.240 --> 01:19:14.480 And it doesn't matter if they are good or bad arguments, what 01:19:14.480 --> 01:19:14.720 matters 01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:19.600 is that they were coming from a rabbi who cursed God and 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:20.880 cursed Christians. 01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:22.880 You never listen to anyone like that. 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:26.320 It doesn't matter what their arguments are, but because there had been 01:19:26.320 --> 01:19:30.880 a dearth for centuries in the West of anyone making literal arguments, 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:34.800 rather than Christians discovering their own and fixing the right problem, said, 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:37.040 Well, let's just import a bunch of stuff from the Jews. 01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:39.840 These rabbis have the scripture stuff nailed down. 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.000 The Gutenberg press was invented in the 1400s, which meant that there 01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:48.960 is now the possibility and the opportunity for mass production of anyone's 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:53.520 writings. And very quickly what we found was that Jews got a 01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:54.320 hold of printing presses. 01:19:54.320 --> 01:19:56.560 They set up publishing shops. 01:19:56.560 --> 01:20:00.960 When we look at the modern media domination of Jews, I don't 01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.160 know what it was like prior to Gutenberg, but that was very 01:20:04.160 --> 01:20:07.760 likely the genesis of Jews in media. 01:20:07.760 --> 01:20:13.200 They set up printing presses, producing their own books, producing these works 01:20:13.200 --> 01:20:17.760 of blasphemy, including the Hebrew so called Bible. 01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:19.200 It was no such thing. 01:20:19.200 --> 01:20:22.240 It was the Masoretic text, it was a rabbinic text, which was 01:20:22.240 --> 01:20:26.560 rejection of Christ, which was riddled with alterations, that the early church 01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:31.200 explicitly condemned, said that they had deliberately changed it. 01:20:31.200 --> 01:20:36.640 All this was placed on the table immediately prior to the Reformation, 01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:41.520 when Johannes Reuchlin, who was a very well connected man politically, became 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:45.440 a Kabbalist when he studied the Kabbalah under the influence of a 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:49.200 truly profoundly wicked rabbi, if you can even narrow it down. 01:20:49.200 --> 01:20:51.360 This man was worse than most. 01:20:51.360 --> 01:20:56.480 This man specifically programmed Roychlin in the Kabbalah, inculcated him to it, 01:20:56.480 --> 01:20:58.400 initiated him, and he loved it. 01:20:58.400 --> 01:21:01.200 He published that stuff and tried to bring it into the church. 01:21:01.200 --> 01:21:06.160 And although that was shot down, they still accepted Reuchlin's primer for 01:21:06.160 --> 01:21:08.080 how to teach yourself Hebrew. 01:21:08.080 --> 01:21:11.280 Because the book that he published to show the rudiments of Hebrew 01:21:11.360 --> 01:21:14.880 so that anyone in the Christian church could learn it, you didn't 01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:16.480 have to have a rabbi in the loop anymore. 01:21:16.480 --> 01:21:19.520 You could just buy Reuchlin's book and you could learn Hebrew at 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:21.200 home in fifteen minutes a day. 01:21:21.200 --> 01:21:24.320 And now we have a case where you don't even feel like 01:21:24.320 --> 01:21:26.320 you're going and talking to the rabbis. 01:21:26.320 --> 01:21:29.920 You're just learning from this Christian book Reuchlin, the book that he 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:32.880 has where you can learn Hebrew, and then you're reading the Hebrew 01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:35.920 Bible that you brought from Bomberg or one of the other Jewish 01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:38.480 printers. And how are you doing anything wrong? 01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:40.080 This is the original word of God. 01:21:40.080 --> 01:21:43.520 This is the pure fountain from which this muddy stream of the 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:45.120 Vulgay came from, isn't it? 01:21:45.120 --> 01:21:47.200 Why shouldn't we go back to the source? 01:21:47.200 --> 01:21:50.720 Everywhere along the way they thought they were doing something entirely holy 01:21:50.720 --> 01:21:53.600 and godly, nobody batted an eye. 01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:56.880 They were solving the immediate problem, which in many cases was the 01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:01.440 right problem, but they didn't solve the fundamental underlying problem, which was 01:22:01.440 --> 01:22:06.400 that they were bringing evil into the midst of the church. 01:22:06.400 --> 01:22:14.400 And so after publishing the rudiments of Hebrew, Reuchlin named Philip Mangthan, 01:22:14.400 --> 01:22:17.120 gave him his last name, taught him Hebrew. 01:22:17.120 --> 01:22:21.600 And then Melanchthon was the man whom Luther relied upon for his 01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:23.360 linguistic expertise. 01:22:23.360 --> 01:22:27.680 At the very inception of the Reformation, the very moment when there 01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:32.400 was the opportunity to actually take a critical look at texts, everything 01:22:32.400 --> 01:22:35.440 had been laid out so that the decision would go in the 01:22:35.440 --> 01:22:37.760 direction of we need even more Jewish stuff. 01:22:37.760 --> 01:22:41.120 We need more rabbis, we need more Hebrew, we have to get 01:22:41.120 --> 01:22:43.680 back to the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith. 01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:46.720 That's basically what people think to this day. 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:52.480 From four hundred with Jerome through fifteen whatever with the early Reformation, 01:22:52.480 --> 01:22:55.280 you can pick any number, any date you want, any year. 01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:59.680 What you will find is at no point did anyone say, as 01:22:59.680 --> 01:23:03.040 a church, should we look at the Septuagint or should we look 01:23:03.040 --> 01:23:04.480 at the rabbinic text? 01:23:04.480 --> 01:23:06.320 The question was never asked. 01:23:06.320 --> 01:23:09.600 The Septuagint was never invited to the party, because it was in 01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:13.680 Greek. And although starting in the twelve hundreds, Europeans began to learn 01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:17.360 Hebrew, they didn't learn Greek until the late fourteen hundreds. 01:23:17.360 --> 01:23:19.680 That was a very late breaking thing. 01:23:19.680 --> 01:23:23.440 And when they did that, it was not for purposes of scholarship 01:23:23.440 --> 01:23:27.520 initially. They weren't even interested in theology, because what does Greek have 01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:28.240 to do with theology? 01:23:28.240 --> 01:23:30.640 We already have the New Testament, we're fine. 01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:35.680 It was a perfect storm of apathy, of misdirection and of false 01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:39.760 choices being made and established and locked in. 01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:44.640 So when we look at the Septuagint itself, we find why that 01:23:44.640 --> 01:23:47.840 lack of a conscious decision was such a serious problem. 01:23:48.400 --> 01:23:53.280 We find many cases where Christological prophecies and passages have been altered 01:23:53.280 --> 01:23:55.600 or neutered entirely. 01:23:55.600 --> 01:23:59.360 And when you look at your modern Bible, it will simply quote 01:23:59.360 --> 01:24:03.920 the Septuagint, even though the Hebrew says something else, the Rabbinic text 01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:07.040 does not say what your Bible says, but if it's a Christological 01:24:07.040 --> 01:24:10.560 passage, they're going to import it from the Septuagint and not tell 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:13.680 you. And yet there are also cases where some of the rabbinic 01:24:13.680 --> 01:24:18.000 readings seem more Christological than what's in the Septuagint, which is a 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:22.480 trap. Because if your hermeneutic for which Bible, which textual source is 01:24:22.640 --> 01:24:25.760 your scripture, is going to be, well, which one has more Jesus? 01:24:26.320 --> 01:24:26.880 You know what? 01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:28.160 You're going to become a Mormon. 01:24:28.160 --> 01:24:30.800 Because they've got a whole extra book of Jesus. 01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:31.840 They got a New Testament. 01:24:31.840 --> 01:24:33.200 They got a new Testament. 01:24:33.200 --> 01:24:36.000 They got even more Jesus than we dumb Christians do. 01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:39.440 So if your hermeneutic is, I want the most Jesus possible, you 01:24:39.440 --> 01:24:42.320 can forget the rabbis and you can forget the Christians and you 01:24:42.320 --> 01:24:43.840 can go to the Mormons. 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:46.960 It's obviously not a permissible hermeneutic. 01:24:46.960 --> 01:24:50.480 We do not judge the text based on how much we like 01:24:50.480 --> 01:24:52.560 it. So how do we judge it? 01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:55.680 Well, we judge it based on what Jesus and the apostles did, 01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:59.920 what they viewed, and we look at the text itself. 01:24:59.920 --> 01:25:02.480 When we look at the text, we find that there are entire 01:25:02.480 --> 01:25:06.560 books like Psalms and Proverbs that are radically different. 01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:09.760 Proverbs is a completely different book in the Septuagint. 01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:14.400 Some of the conclusions, some of the wisdom is just fundamentally different. 01:25:14.400 --> 01:25:17.760 As we said in the wisdom episode, you've never read Proverbs until 01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:20.160 you've read it in the Septuagint. 01:25:20.160 --> 01:25:22.480 And those books are not isolated. 01:25:22.480 --> 01:25:26.400 When you look at Esther, when you look at Jeremiah, you have 01:25:26.400 --> 01:25:28.560 entire books rearranged entirely. 01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:33.040 You have sections added, sections removed, the story is completely retold. 01:25:33.040 --> 01:25:37.360 The story of Esther and Jeremiah is fundamentally different in the Septuagint 01:25:37.360 --> 01:25:40.000 than it is in the Bible on your shelf at home. 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.600 When you look at books like Job, you have substantial details that 01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:44.720 have been erased. 01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:47.840 They would put King Job right in the historical context during the 01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:50.400 Hebrews Egyptian captivity. 01:25:50.400 --> 01:25:54.880 The problem with removing King Job from his context is that you 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:57.760 lose sight of what we find in the very last verse of 01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:01.280 Job. And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz of the 01:26:01.280 --> 01:26:06.000 children of Esau, King of the Thamanites, Baldad sovereign of the Saukians, 01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:08.080 Sophar king of the Menaeans. 01:26:08.160 --> 01:26:12.080 We have the Edomites, the Thamanites, the Salkians, and the Menaeans, all 01:26:12.080 --> 01:26:16.640 Christians. They were all believers in the one true God, simultaneous to 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:22.720 and neighboring to the Hebrews, who were enslaved for their faithlessness. 01:26:23.200 --> 01:26:27.520 The redaction, the removal of those things from Job means you don't 01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:28.960 pay any attention to that. 01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:32.240 You think that the Hebrews were the only believers on the planet. 01:26:32.240 --> 01:26:34.000 They were the only elect who existed. 01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:36.000 They were the only elect who ever existed. 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:37.760 They were the chosen ones. 01:26:37.760 --> 01:26:39.840 Chosen and elect are synonyms. 01:26:39.840 --> 01:26:42.880 Anytime you hear anyone say chosen, just think elect. 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:44.960 And remember that's Christian doctrine. 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.240 That has nothing to do with a race of Middle East people. 01:26:48.240 --> 01:26:52.400 The Edomites, for a long time, were the chosen people. 01:26:52.400 --> 01:26:53.440 They were elect. 01:26:53.440 --> 01:26:57.760 We know that because King Job was generations after Esau, and he 01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:01.520 was the most faithful man alive, and so were his sons, and 01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:04.160 his friends who came to him the other kings. 01:27:04.160 --> 01:27:07.920 Although their theology was not great in some of their arguments, they 01:27:07.920 --> 01:27:09.600 were confessing the true God. 01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:13.120 These were Christians coming and talking to Job about the Christian God. 01:27:13.120 --> 01:27:17.040 They were kings over their kingdoms, and they loved and cared for 01:27:17.040 --> 01:27:20.880 their friend, their Christian friend, King Job, so much, that they took 01:27:20.880 --> 01:27:24.480 time off work as king to go commiserate with him, and to 01:27:24.480 --> 01:27:25.760 try to encourage him. 01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:29.120 And although they didn't do a great job, they did it as 01:27:29.120 --> 01:27:33.600 Christians. We're certainly in no worse shape today with our own friends. 01:27:33.600 --> 01:27:36.480 Those nations that were not 01:27:37.440 --> 01:27:39.840 of Jacob were Christian. 01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:43.120 They were believers in the one true God, and later on they 01:27:43.120 --> 01:27:44.240 lost the faith. 01:27:44.240 --> 01:27:46.800 We can't find that surprising because when you look at the Old 01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.560 Testament, you find exactly the same thing happening with the Hebrews. 01:27:50.560 --> 01:27:52.480 They continuously lost faith. 01:27:52.480 --> 01:27:55.840 There are very few episodes in the history of those people where 01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:58.720 they were not apostate, or nearly so. 01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:02.640 There was some tiny remnant, sometimes it was only a few prophets 01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:05.760 were left, and everyone else had fallen into idolatry. 01:28:05.760 --> 01:28:10.880 That was the tenuous hold that Christianity had among the Hebrews. 01:28:10.880 --> 01:28:14.560 So we can't pick on the other nations that were also descended 01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:17.920 and also knew God at that time that they fell away, just 01:28:17.920 --> 01:28:19.600 as we're falling away today. 01:28:19.600 --> 01:28:22.240 These stories are a warning to us. 01:28:22.240 --> 01:28:24.640 These stories are not about Jews. 01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:28.400 These stories are about humanity and its connection to God and how 01:28:28.400 --> 01:28:31.680 easy it is for us to throw God away and how hard 01:28:31.680 --> 01:28:34.400 God fights to hang on to us. 01:28:34.400 --> 01:28:37.200 When you look at the other alterations that were made by the 01:28:37.200 --> 01:28:41.360 rabbis to the Old Testament, you see these other changes to timelines, 01:28:41.360 --> 01:28:47.840 not only Job being deleted from the timeline, but significant Christological alterations 01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:52.080 of the timeline, alterations that simply make history no longer align with 01:28:52.080 --> 01:28:53.280 scripture itself. 01:28:53.280 --> 01:28:57.120 Changes that when the rabbis were making them to blaspheme God, they 01:28:57.120 --> 01:29:00.560 didn't realize that later on archaeology was going to prove them liars, 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:04.560 was going to prove the rabbinic text a lie and a forgery. 01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:07.280 The Septuagint doesn't have those problems. 01:29:07.280 --> 01:29:09.040 So how do we reconcile all this? 01:29:09.040 --> 01:29:12.800 How do we look at this mass of confusion and error? 01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:15.440 And how do we as sitting here in the twenty first century, 01:29:15.440 --> 01:29:17.280 how can we possibly pick a winner? 01:29:17.280 --> 01:29:18.480 We weren't there. 01:29:18.480 --> 01:29:21.840 We don't have the very oldest manuscripts of any of these things. 01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:23.360 We have copies of copies. 01:29:23.360 --> 01:29:26.160 How do we pick the winner when you're just looking at things 01:29:26.160 --> 01:29:27.600 sitting on a table? 01:29:27.600 --> 01:29:29.360 You look to the New Testament. 01:29:29.360 --> 01:29:32.560 That's why we say the New Testament as our closing argument. 01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:34.560 We don't have to make exegetical arguments. 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:37.680 We don't have to make theological arguments for the Septuagint. 01:29:37.680 --> 01:29:41.200 We have to make the argument the New Testament calls the Septuagint 01:29:41.360 --> 01:29:43.120 scripture over and over again. 01:29:43.120 --> 01:29:45.920 There are over 300 quotes in the New Testament of the Old 01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:48.880 Testament, and all but about half a dozen of them are from 01:29:48.880 --> 01:29:50.480 the Septuagint. 01:29:50.480 --> 01:29:55.040 There are over six dozen that are exclusively from the Septuagint. 01:29:55.120 --> 01:29:58.560 Cannot possibly be from the rabbinic text. 01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:03.680 And it's not simply limited to one or two books. 01:30:03.680 --> 01:30:07.200 There are thirteen different Old Testament books that are quoted, so we're 01:30:07.120 --> 01:30:08.800 not talking about the Pentateuch. 01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:12.480 We're talking about a random grab bag, talking about wisdom literature, the 01:30:12.480 --> 01:30:17.120 Pentateuch, Minor Prophets, it's all over the place The New Testament is 01:30:17.120 --> 01:30:22.480 indiscriminate about which Greek Old Testament books it cites, as Scripture. 01:30:22.480 --> 01:30:24.320 We must do the same. 01:30:24.320 --> 01:30:26.720 We have to take it as a whole. 01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:31.360 When thirteen Old Testament books are quoted from the Septuagint in seventeen 01:30:31.360 --> 01:30:37.200 different New Testament books, that is beyond overwhelming evidence. 01:30:37.200 --> 01:30:41.040 You cannot possibly carve anything out of the Septuagint and say, okay, 01:30:41.040 --> 01:30:43.600 well, we'll take this, but we're gonna have to carve this out 01:30:43.600 --> 01:30:46.000 and say that this this isn't scripture. 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:49.040 There's no way to reach that conclusion, not with the numbers involved 01:30:49.200 --> 01:30:53.200 here. As we've said, 44% of those quotes were from Isaiah alone. 01:30:53.200 --> 01:30:55.120 That is overwhelming. 01:30:55.120 --> 01:31:00.400 Particularly when contrasted with the so called Qumran Caves discoveries. 01:31:00.400 --> 01:31:03.760 These things that are supposed to once again reconnect us to our 01:31:03.760 --> 01:31:05.840 Judeo Christian roots. 01:31:05.840 --> 01:31:08.400 It is Judeo, it is not Christian. 01:31:08.400 --> 01:31:10.800 It has no nexus to the Christian faith. 01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:14.240 Nothing that came out of the Kumon case has anything to do 01:31:14.240 --> 01:31:19.040 with Christianity, except that it exists to subvert it. 01:31:19.040 --> 01:31:22.240 What we are dealing with here is something that Corey and I 01:31:22.240 --> 01:31:25.360 have referred to numerous times over numerous episodes, even before getting to 01:31:25.360 --> 01:31:27.040 the Septuagint. 01:31:27.040 --> 01:31:29.120 We have found the book of the law in the house of 01:31:29.120 --> 01:31:30.080 the Lord. 01:31:30.080 --> 01:31:35.840 The story of Josiah, who incidentally, in the Greek, is named Jos, 01:31:35.840 --> 01:31:40.320 and the high priest is not Helkaih, it's Calcius. 01:31:40.320 --> 01:31:42.560 I had to go look that up 'cause I didn't know what 01:31:42.560 --> 01:31:43.200 their names were. 01:31:43.200 --> 01:31:44.240 I had no idea. 01:31:44.240 --> 01:31:46.640 That's a really good reminder to all of us. 01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:49.280 Whenever we realize, oh I don't even know what that guy's name 01:31:49.280 --> 01:31:51.200 is in the old testament because I've never looked at it in 01:31:51.200 --> 01:31:52.000 the Greek. 01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:52.960 That's a reminder. 01:31:52.960 --> 01:31:54.320 Go back and look at that text. 01:31:54.320 --> 01:31:56.400 Just see what the Septuagint says there. 01:31:56.400 --> 01:31:58.320 Maybe the name is the only thing that's different. 01:31:58.320 --> 01:32:00.960 In some cases that will be what you find. 01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:03.600 In other cases what you'll find is that it's not the same 01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:04.480 story at all. 01:32:04.480 --> 01:32:07.680 If you happen to flip to Aster, it's not the same book. 01:32:07.680 --> 01:32:09.440 Jeremiah is totally rearranged. 01:32:09.440 --> 01:32:10.640 We didn't even get to it. 01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:13.840 As I mentioned in the previous episode, we found out about that 01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:16.080 afterwards. We probably wouldn't have touched it anyway. 01:32:16.080 --> 01:32:20.480 There's so much work here beyond what any human being can do 01:32:20.480 --> 01:32:21.760 in his entire life. 01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:26.320 There's literally centuries of Christian scholarship ahead of the church. 01:32:26.320 --> 01:32:30.720 What we must do is respond as Josias did. 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:33.440 What did he do when the book of the law was found 01:32:33.440 --> 01:32:34.720 in the house of the Lord? 01:32:34.880 --> 01:32:37.280 Was essentially found in rubble. 01:32:37.280 --> 01:32:38.560 He repented. 01:32:38.560 --> 01:32:44.080 He waited, he wept, he tore his cloak in anguish, because he 01:32:44.080 --> 01:32:48.000 had been evil for believing the things he had believed before then. 01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:49.680 Even though he was a believer. 01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:51.680 He was already trying to clean up the temple at the time 01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:52.960 that they found this stuff. 01:32:52.960 --> 01:32:54.720 That's why the workmen were in there. 01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:59.440 He was beginning to do away with the idolatry when he discovered 01:32:59.440 --> 01:33:02.320 that they had lost scripture entirely. 01:33:02.320 --> 01:33:06.880 And when you look at the various prophets that rose up around 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:10.080 that time, it's clear just how bad things were. 01:33:10.080 --> 01:33:13.920 There's a lot of scripture right around this period of Josiah's. 01:33:13.920 --> 01:33:20.160 Because of his repentance, God God specifically personally spared him from what 01:33:20.160 --> 01:33:21.040 was to come. 01:33:21.040 --> 01:33:24.720 He made a promise to him after he repented of the wickedness 01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:27.680 of his father's having lost the Bible. 01:33:27.680 --> 01:33:30.320 And God's promise to him was very simple. 01:33:30.320 --> 01:33:34.160 Just as I have destroyed the northern kingdom before you, after you 01:33:34.160 --> 01:33:36.080 die, I'm going to destroy the southern kingdom. 01:33:36.080 --> 01:33:37.760 I'm going to destroy Judah. 01:33:37.760 --> 01:33:41.360 God destroyed Judah because they lost the Bible. 01:33:42.240 --> 01:33:46.320 Josiah alone was spared because of his repentance when he heard what 01:33:46.320 --> 01:33:47.360 was in the word. 01:33:47.360 --> 01:33:51.360 He believed it, he repented, and God spared him the wrath. 01:33:51.360 --> 01:33:53.440 And he was called a good man. 01:33:53.440 --> 01:33:58.400 Nevertheless, the fate of Judah, of the southern kingdom, was the same 01:33:58.400 --> 01:34:01.120 as the north because of their apostasy. 01:34:01.120 --> 01:34:03.680 Because when they heard the word of God, when they heard the 01:34:03.680 --> 01:34:05.920 voice of God, they didn't believe it. 01:34:05.920 --> 01:34:10.880 We point to Josiah's repentance because we are in that exact situation 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:14.560 today. We are in a situation where we are not talking about 01:34:14.560 --> 01:34:16.320 a translation of the Bible. 01:34:16.320 --> 01:34:19.920 When we talk about the Septuagint, we talk about the very Bible 01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:23.360 that Jesus and the Apostles used, we talk about the Bible that 01:34:23.360 --> 01:34:28.080 the early church thankfully and by God's providence preserved for us. 01:34:28.080 --> 01:34:32.720 We are talking about having to look at every single decision that 01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:36.720 the church has ever made based on the arguments of the rabbis. 01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:39.840 That's part of why it's gonna take centuries, because a lot of 01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:43.200 the theology that we have sitting on our shelves is based in 01:34:43.200 --> 01:34:47.760 some part on the rabbinic text and on rabbinic lies. 01:34:47.760 --> 01:34:48.880 Not all of it. 01:34:48.880 --> 01:34:50.720 We don't know what's in there. 01:34:50.720 --> 01:34:53.920 But we are going to be confronted as Christians with a choice 01:34:53.920 --> 01:34:55.840 when we find those things. 01:34:55.840 --> 01:34:58.240 Are we going to hear the voice of God in the Greek 01:34:58.240 --> 01:35:00.080 scripture that He gave to us? 01:35:00.080 --> 01:35:04.640 Or are we gonna instead follow the teachings of men? 01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:06.800 Men who in their day were Christians. 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:12.080 Although they fell victim to this fraud, they will be forgiven for 01:35:12.080 --> 01:35:14.000 it, because they did not know. 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:14.480 They missed 01:35:15.360 --> 01:35:18.880 this. We are not in a position where we can miss it. 01:35:18.880 --> 01:35:21.600 When we're looking at this, now that this has been laid on 01:35:21.600 --> 01:35:24.880 the table plainly in front of us, a decision will have to 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.640 be made in the future, in the near future for every Christian, 01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:30.640 what do I do with the Septuagint? 01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:32.720 What relationship does it have with me? 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:35.120 Is this scripture or is it a fraud? 01:35:35.120 --> 01:35:37.280 Because it's got to be one or the other. 01:35:37.280 --> 01:35:41.040 There's this whole mixing of the Greek and the rabbinic text is 01:35:41.040 --> 01:35:42.400 utterly impermissible. 01:35:42.400 --> 01:35:43.680 It's wicked. 01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:47.600 Either scripture is breathed out in Hebrew or it's breathed out in 01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:50.960 Greek, and Hebrew is destroyed and lost. 01:35:50.960 --> 01:35:54.560 The facts that we have presented here can only possibly reach one 01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:57.280 conclusion for a Christian mind. 01:35:57.280 --> 01:36:00.000 And although we're not going to get into the theology either in 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:03.280 this episode or the bonus episode on what impact that's going to 01:36:03.280 --> 01:36:06.480 have on the church, I want to give you one small pointer 01:36:06.560 --> 01:36:09.280 just to give you some idea that we're not just talking about 01:36:09.280 --> 01:36:11.360 a new Bible in your pews. 01:36:11.360 --> 01:36:17.440 The Westminster Confession of 1646, the Savoy Declaration of 1658, the Second 01:36:17.440 --> 01:36:22.560 London Baptist Confession of sixteen eighty nine, all read the same way, 01:36:22.560 --> 01:36:24.320 chapter one, section eight. 01:36:24.480 --> 01:36:29.680 SUMMARISING. The OLT TEMEN in Hebrew has been immediately inspired by God. 01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:33.520 It has been kept pure in all ages, it is authentic, and 01:36:33.520 --> 01:36:37.920 it must be used as the final judge in all controversies. 01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:41.040 This is the controversy of all controversies. 01:36:41.040 --> 01:36:44.160 Any one of you who holds to any of those confessions is 01:36:44.400 --> 01:36:48.800 He is bound confessionally to call us liars and to reject the 01:36:48.800 --> 01:36:52.080 Septuagint. And in fact, to reject your own Bibles because your own 01:36:52.080 --> 01:36:54.400 Bibles are not based on the Hebrew text. 01:36:54.400 --> 01:36:58.320 Your confession that says Hebrew, your Bible does not save Hebrew. 01:36:58.320 --> 01:37:01.360 Your Bible is riddled with Septuagint. 01:37:01.360 --> 01:37:06.160 It's riddled with this infection from this Greek text that your confession 01:37:06.160 --> 01:37:07.600 says is false. 01:37:07.600 --> 01:37:09.920 Whenever it disagrees with the Hebrew. 01:37:09.920 --> 01:37:13.680 Your Bible does not conform to the Westminster Confession. 01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:15.520 Flat out. 01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:17.120 That's not our problem. 01:37:17.120 --> 01:37:19.680 That's a problem for each individual to look at. 01:37:19.680 --> 01:37:22.000 And to figure out what are you going to do with this? 01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:25.360 And again, it doesn't matter how faithful the men who came up 01:37:25.360 --> 01:37:26.560 with those confessions were. 01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:28.880 I'm sure I'm going to meet most of them in heaven. 01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:30.720 This is not indicting those men. 01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:35.680 This is saying that the specific stipulation in writing that the Hebrew 01:37:35.680 --> 01:37:40.240 is sacrosanct and is holy and is breathed out by God, either 01:37:40.240 --> 01:37:41.840 that's true or it's false. 01:37:41.840 --> 01:37:44.960 And if that's true, then the New Testament is false. 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:48.960 And if that's false, then your confession is false, and you're gonna 01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:51.280 have to figure out what to do with that. 01:37:51.280 --> 01:37:56.000 One specific example of something that evaporates theologically when you adopt the 01:37:56.000 --> 01:38:00.880 Septuagint and you reject the rabbinic text, covenant theology vanishes. 01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:03.920 As a Lutheran, that doesn't even mean anything to me. 01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:06.320 To many of you, that is going to be a crisis of 01:38:06.320 --> 01:38:10.320 conscience, which is why we've been very careful to lay out as 01:38:10.320 --> 01:38:13.920 we went through just how important it is to look at Jesus 01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:17.360 and the apostle and the early church as our guide for this, 01:38:17.360 --> 01:38:20.560 because by the time you're looking to the Reformation, when you're looking 01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:25.200 at the 16th century, you're over a thousand years into rabbinic influence. 01:38:25.200 --> 01:38:29.200 The decisions that were made were not made in view of rejecting 01:38:29.200 --> 01:38:30.560 the Septuagint. 01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.200 They were made in view of the assumption that the Hebrew was 01:38:33.200 --> 01:38:36.880 authentic. That's why your confession says that. 01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:40.640 If it turns out that that assumption was wrong, then anything downstream 01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:42.160 from that assumption is wrong. 01:38:42.400 --> 01:38:44.320 genealogy of ideas. 01:38:44.320 --> 01:38:48.080 We began there in Stone Choir for this very reason. 01:38:48.080 --> 01:38:52.720 The notion of a pure spring and a polluted stream is absolutely 01:38:52.720 --> 01:38:56.800 true. The problem that the church faces is that the rabbinic text 01:38:57.440 --> 01:38:59.440 is the polluted stream. 01:38:59.440 --> 01:39:05.280 The pure spring of scripture is Greek exclusively. 01:39:05.280 --> 01:39:09.280 I want to end with a quote that describes Josias in the 01:39:09.280 --> 01:39:11.840 moment of his repentance. 01:39:11.840 --> 01:39:14.160 And it happened when the king heard the word of the book 01:39:14.160 --> 01:39:16.720 of the law that he tore his own clothes, and the king 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:20.080 commanded Calcius the priest and his sons and the secretary and the 01:39:20.080 --> 01:39:23.840 king's slave, saying, Go, seek out the Lord for me and for 01:39:23.840 --> 01:39:26.320 all the people, and for all of Udea. 01:39:26.320 --> 01:39:30.000 Concerning the words of this book that was found, for great is 01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:33.280 the wrath of the Lord is blazed out against us, because our 01:39:33.280 --> 01:39:36.960 fathers did not obey the words of this book, do according to 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:39.280 all that is written against us. 01:39:39.280 --> 01:39:41.680 Every word of this applies to us today. 01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:44.320 Every word of this applies to the church. 01:39:44.320 --> 01:39:48.320 Our fathers did not obey the words in this book. 01:39:48.320 --> 01:39:52.480 What is written in the book of Scripture in Greek is written 01:39:52.480 --> 01:39:53.440 against us. 01:39:53.440 --> 01:39:55.520 It is not a book about Jews. 01:39:55.520 --> 01:39:58.720 It is a book about the elect, and how awful and idiotic 01:39:59.280 --> 01:40:03.200 and retarded we are, and how hard God has to fight to 01:40:03.200 --> 01:40:06.720 keep us out of hell against every effort that we make at 01:40:06.720 --> 01:40:09.360 all times and all places to try to disobey him. 01:40:09.360 --> 01:40:11.280 Just by the littlest measure. 01:40:11.280 --> 01:40:13.280 We're not going whole hog. 01:40:13.280 --> 01:40:15.040 We're not doing the reprobate thing. 01:40:15.040 --> 01:40:16.080 We're doing the easy thing. 01:40:16.080 --> 01:40:17.840 We're believing God in the wrong way. 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:20.960 We're believing God in a way that is gonna make the world 01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:25.760 happy. May God give us the strength to navigate what is before 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:29.280 us. May he give us the wisdom, and may we forgive us 01:40:29.280 --> 01:40:31.040 for everything that we've done. 01:40:31.040 --> 01:40:36.320 Amen. 01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:42.880 Wo just gave you the overview by way of reminder, the roadmap, 01:40:42.880 --> 01:40:49.120 where we've been, what we've gone over, part of the argument for 01:40:49.440 --> 01:40:52.240 what we need to do next, what we should have done in 01:40:52.240 --> 01:40:55.120 centuries past. 01:40:55.120 --> 01:40:59.840 And now I'm going to give you the closing argument for the 01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:06.000 Septuagint. For the Septuagint over and against the rabbinic text. 01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:08.400 I'm going to divide it up into six points. 01:41:08.400 --> 01:41:11.200 I leave it as an exercise to the listener or the reader, 01:41:11.200 --> 01:41:16.800 if you prefer the transcripts, to decide how to number those points. 01:41:16.800 --> 01:41:20.400 But I'm not going to go over the history again. 01:41:20.400 --> 01:41:22.640 We're not going to be cumulative as it were. 01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:25.600 I'm not going to belabor the point. 01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:28.800 I am going to give you the points that you need in 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:33.600 order In order to understand the argument, in order to be secure 01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:38.880 in knowing the Septuagint is the word of God, and the so-called 01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:42.880 Hebrew is not, and here is why. 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:45.360 The first point, and I will number this one for you so 01:41:45.360 --> 01:41:47.280 that you know that I'm starting. 01:41:47.280 --> 01:41:50.240 The first point, very straightforward. 01:41:50.240 --> 01:41:54.160 Which one did God preserve? 01:41:54.160 --> 01:41:56.400 God did not preserve the Hebrew. 01:41:56.400 --> 01:42:01.840 As Woe said, the Hebrew was entirely lost by the time of 01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:08.560 Christ. All that was preserved was snippets of it in liturgical use. 01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:12.320 The same as you may find in our courts of law today 01:42:12.480 --> 01:42:14.000 with regard to Latin. 01:42:14.000 --> 01:42:18.080 Let me tell you as an attorney, very few attorneys know Latin. 01:42:18.080 --> 01:42:21.840 We still use it all the time, because we have these little 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:24.480 set phrases that have been preserved. 01:42:24.480 --> 01:42:28.640 The same thing was true of Hebrew in the time of Christ. 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:34.320 The language was gone, the texts were gone, these little snippets survived. 01:42:34.320 --> 01:42:39.680 Aramaic was still around, but often needed translated into Greek. 01:42:39.680 --> 01:42:41.520 What was preserved? 01:42:41.520 --> 01:42:46.240 The Greek was preserved, because God had caused his word to be 01:42:46.240 --> 01:42:49.360 translated into the Greek, and then disseminated into the 01:42:50.400 --> 01:42:54.000 Greek. The Jews had already spread the Greek scriptures everywhere. 01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:56.960 God managed to get them to do something good because they didn't 01:42:56.880 --> 01:42:59.680 realize they were doing something good at the time. 01:42:59.680 --> 01:43:04.320 And so all of these far flung synagogues had copies of the 01:43:04.320 --> 01:43:06.080 Scriptures in Greek. 01:43:06.080 --> 01:43:07.600 That's what they were using. 01:43:07.600 --> 01:43:11.840 That's why these men, all over the Roman world, had access to 01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:16.880 the Scriptures, because they were present in the synagogues in Greek. 01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:20.560 The Jews did something good because God can use whatever tool he 01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:23.360 has to hand to do whatever he pleases. 01:43:23.360 --> 01:43:27.120 God can draw straight lines with crooked sticks. 01:43:27.120 --> 01:43:31.760 And And so fulfilling God's promises, his many promises to preserve his 01:43:32.080 --> 01:43:37.120 word, he translated it, he caused it to be translated into Greek, 01:43:37.120 --> 01:43:40.080 because Greek is the language of the empire. 01:43:40.080 --> 01:43:43.200 Greek is the language that would spread the word of God. 01:43:43.200 --> 01:43:47.200 Greek is a European language, incidentally, you should hearken back to the 01:43:47.200 --> 01:43:48.640 promises of Noah. 01:43:48.640 --> 01:43:52.400 This is God fulfilling his promise to the sons of Japheth that 01:43:52.400 --> 01:43:54.960 they would dwell in the tents of Shem, that we would become 01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:57.840 Christendom. That is what the Greek is. 01:43:57.840 --> 01:44:03.520 God fulfills his promises, not a single word falls to the ground. 01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:08.480 One of the MOTOS of the Reformation, with which many of you 01:44:08.480 --> 01:44:11.120 are undoubtedly familiar, even if you don't know the Latin, you'll know 01:44:11.120 --> 01:44:13.840 the initialism V DMA 01:44:14.800 --> 01:44:20.800 Verbum Domini Manet in Eiternum The Word of the Lord endures in 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:25.760 eternity or into eternity you can translate that either way. 01:44:25.760 --> 01:44:28.160 While I was sitting here I happened to look it up in 01:44:28.160 --> 01:44:30.800 the Hebrew and so this is a sort of bonus example 01:44:32.640 --> 01:44:39.920 in a literal translation of the Hebrew from the Biblia Hebraicotencia, 01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:40.560 it has 01:44:42.160 --> 01:44:46.720 a word of our God riseth forever. 01:44:46.720 --> 01:44:49.200 Well that's not the same even as the motto that we used 01:44:49.200 --> 01:44:50.720 in the Reformation. 01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:54.000 It happens to be that we were relying on the Septuagint all 01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:57.360 along, with our own motto, and didn't even know it. 01:44:57.360 --> 01:45:00.560 Because what do we have in the text of the Septuagint? 01:45:00.560 --> 01:45:04.480 The word of our God remains forever. 01:45:04.480 --> 01:45:06.320 It's the same thing. 01:45:06.320 --> 01:45:09.440 We've been relying on the Septuagint with even that all along, when 01:45:09.440 --> 01:45:12.640 we're speaking about the word of the Lord, enduring, we're quoting the 01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:17.520 Septuagint. Even men who thought they were relying on the Hebrew weren't 01:45:17.440 --> 01:45:21.440 doing it at the very moment they were saying God preserves his 01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:22.960 word for all time. 01:45:24.720 --> 01:45:27.520 And that ties into what I want to make as my next 01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:32.080 point. I pointed this out as we were going through the examples 01:45:32.080 --> 01:45:35.120 in this episode, but I want to highlight it again. 01:45:35.120 --> 01:45:38.560 I was almost tempted to simply collect all the examples, which is 01:45:38.560 --> 01:45:41.600 very easy because I have a copy of Strong's, or you can 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:45.680 use any concordance for this, all of the instances of Gigrapti in 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:46.560 the Greek. 01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:48.880 It is written. 01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:54.720 It appears sixty to seventy times in the New Testament. 01:45:54.720 --> 01:45:58.400 That's a lot of times where the New Testament authors are saying, 01:45:58.400 --> 01:45:59.520 It is written. 01:45:59.520 --> 01:46:01.120 And remember my first point. 01:46:01.120 --> 01:46:02.960 What did they not have written? 01:46:03.280 --> 01:46:04.960 They didn't have the Hebrew. 01:46:04.960 --> 01:46:06.560 So they are saying, it is written. 01:46:06.560 --> 01:46:08.160 Well, what is written? 01:46:08.160 --> 01:46:11.760 The only thing they can possibly mean is the Greek. 01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:14.560 And so every single time when you are reading the New Testament 01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:18.000 and you see, it is written, it is written, it is written, 01:46:18.000 --> 01:46:19.280 it is written. 01:46:19.280 --> 01:46:22.880 They are talking about the Greek, because that is the only written 01:46:22.880 --> 01:46:26.160 copy of Scripture to which they had access. 01:46:26.160 --> 01:46:30.080 Because the Hebrew foreloga, which we admit existed at some time in 01:46:30.080 --> 01:46:32.960 the distant past, of course it existed. 01:46:32.960 --> 01:46:35.920 The Septuagint is based on that. 01:46:35.920 --> 01:46:40.400 God used that to preserve his word until he created the Septuagint. 01:46:40.400 --> 01:46:44.160 That existed, it is gone, it is lost forever along with the 01:46:44.160 --> 01:46:47.120 language needed to interpret it, to read it. 01:46:47.120 --> 01:46:50.000 In fact, it is interpret more in that case, because of things 01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:53.040 we've already pointed out about the Hebrew language, and how it is 01:46:53.040 --> 01:46:56.000 deficient, without an oral tradition. 01:46:56.000 --> 01:47:00.000 And so when they say it is written, they can only ever 01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:01.680 mean the Greek. 01:47:01.680 --> 01:47:04.720 And so every single time you see that, when you are reading 01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:09.680 scripture, recognize, they are telling you, the Septuagint is my Bible. 01:47:09.680 --> 01:47:11.600 The Septuagint is the Word of God. 01:47:11.600 --> 01:47:14.000 The Septuagint should be your Bible. 01:47:14.000 --> 01:47:17.360 Because it is written. 01:47:17.360 --> 01:47:20.400 The next point is from Matthew 5. 01:47:20.400 --> 01:47:22.480 You should all expect this one. 01:47:22.480 --> 01:47:24.800 This is one we should all have memorized. 01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:28.480 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, 01:47:28.480 --> 01:47:32.000 not an iota, not a dot will pass from the law, until 01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:34.080 all is accomplished. 01:47:34.080 --> 01:47:38.160 I actually want to give both the King James and the ESV 01:47:38.160 --> 01:47:41.520 credit here, because they both translate this one pretty well. 01:47:41.520 --> 01:47:44.800 Of course, from the King James, we get the one with which 01:47:44.800 --> 01:47:47.440 we are all familiar, jot or Tittle. 01:47:47.440 --> 01:47:50.800 Even if we are no longer particularly familiar with the words jot 01:47:51.200 --> 01:47:53.200 and tittle. 01:47:53.200 --> 01:47:57.680 Jot, incidentally, is basically iota, just anglicized. 01:47:57.680 --> 01:48:00.480 And so you have that i transforming into a j. 01:48:00.560 --> 01:48:01.920 This happens a lot. 01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:06.240 Tittle just comes from titulus Latin, which is a small stroke. 01:48:06.240 --> 01:48:10.240 In other words, it's the line on the iota, or sometimes it 01:48:10.240 --> 01:48:13.600 can be the line versus the dot, which is why the ESV 01:48:13.600 --> 01:48:15.920 incidentally uses dot. 01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:18.720 But the word there in the Greek, if you want to translate 01:48:18.720 --> 01:48:21.360 it more literally, is serif. 01:48:21.360 --> 01:48:23.920 The word iota of course is iota. 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:25.280 Well what is iota? 01:48:25.520 --> 01:48:29.600 Iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:32.320 It is equivalent to our I. 01:48:32.320 --> 01:48:35.840 Historically written without the dot, so it's literally just the line, and 01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:37.920 then you have the dot, the serif. 01:48:37.920 --> 01:48:42.880 Because in some forms of Greek, granted, in ancient Greek they didn't 01:48:42.800 --> 01:48:45.280 really use the diacritics that was developed later. 01:48:45.280 --> 01:48:48.000 I don't want to get into that as sort of a tangent. 01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:51.520 But this term here for seraph can also refer to the diacritics 01:48:51.520 --> 01:48:56.560 that are used somewhat during this time and definitely in modern Greek 01:48:56.640 --> 01:49:00.240 and slightly before modern Greek because they've simplified things. 01:49:00.240 --> 01:49:01.920 But what is a serif? 01:49:01.920 --> 01:49:05.600 Well, a serif is just a line. 01:49:05.600 --> 01:49:09.360 It's a line that is essentially embellishing a letter. 01:49:09.360 --> 01:49:11.680 This is something that is dear to both Wo and me. 01:49:11.680 --> 01:49:14.960 Incidentally, I'm looking at my desk here, and basically everything on my 01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:20.240 desk is in San's serif fonts, unfortunately, but the serif is that 01:49:20.240 --> 01:49:24.320 little ornamentation on the letter, and so it's saying that nothing will 01:49:24.320 --> 01:49:26.320 pass away from the law. 01:49:26.320 --> 01:49:29.200 Christ is being as clear as he can possibly be Possibly be 01:49:29.200 --> 01:49:33.200 that not the smallest part of anything will pass away. 01:49:33.200 --> 01:49:36.080 And of course you should remember verse seventeen as well when you 01:49:36.080 --> 01:49:38.080 think of verse eighteen. 01:49:38.080 --> 01:49:41.120 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or 01:49:41.120 --> 01:49:42.240 the prophets. 01:49:42.240 --> 01:49:44.800 I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 01:49:44.800 --> 01:49:47.280 He is referencing the entire Old Testament. 01:49:47.280 --> 01:49:49.280 He's not saying the Pentateuch. 01:49:49.280 --> 01:49:51.440 He's not saying just the first five books. 01:49:51.440 --> 01:49:56.160 He is saying the entirety of the Old Testament. 01:49:56.160 --> 01:49:57.760 Nothing will pass away. 01:49:58.160 --> 01:50:00.000 And what does he use there? 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.160 He uses Greek. 01:50:02.160 --> 01:50:07.120 Undoubtedly, Christ knew the words in Hebrew because Christ is God, he 01:50:07.120 --> 01:50:08.080 knows all things. 01:50:08.080 --> 01:50:11.680 We're not going to get into according to the humanity versus according 01:50:11.680 --> 01:50:14.800 to the divinity and the state of humiliation. 01:50:14.800 --> 01:50:17.840 Even during his earthly ministry in the state of humiliation he knows 01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:18.800 all things. 01:50:18.800 --> 01:50:21.040 So could he have used Hebrew there if he wanted to? 01:50:21.040 --> 01:50:22.240 And then explained it. 01:50:22.240 --> 01:50:24.880 Absolutely. Did he do so? 01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:26.240 Absolutely not. 01:50:26.240 --> 01:50:30.080 He uses the smallest Greek letter and the smallest stroke of a 01:50:30.080 --> 01:50:31.200 Greek letter. 01:50:31.200 --> 01:50:33.440 The Iota and the Seraph. 01:50:33.440 --> 01:50:37.920 And so when Christ says that nothing will pass away, he references 01:50:37.920 --> 01:50:40.080 the Greek explicitly. 01:50:40.080 --> 01:50:44.080 He is saying that nothing will pass away from the scriptures which 01:50:44.080 --> 01:50:45.440 are in Greek. 01:50:45.440 --> 01:50:49.840 What is verse nineteen, which is relevant to day, to morrow, and 01:50:49.840 --> 01:50:52.480 in the near future? 01:50:52.480 --> 01:50:58.240 Therefore, whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments, and teaches 01:50:58.240 --> 01:51:01.600 others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom 01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:05.600 of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called 01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:10.560 great in the kingdom of heaven. 01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:14.800 We should be concerned about what has been done to scripture. 01:51:14.800 --> 01:51:18.880 Because Christ here, God says that nothing will pass away, and then 01:51:19.200 --> 01:51:21.760 cursed is the one. 01:51:21.760 --> 01:51:24.560 Granted, the language of Revelation is stronger, and I'll get to that 01:51:24.560 --> 01:51:25.360 in a minute here, but 01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:29.760 even if you are a Christian, you are going to be least 01:51:29.840 --> 01:51:32.560 in the kingdom of heaven if you are relaxing and changing the 01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:33.680 Word of God. 01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:37.040 And that's assuming you remain Christian. 01:51:37.040 --> 01:51:39.120 That's what the rabbis did. 01:51:39.120 --> 01:51:42.400 That's what we have been doing by using the text that they 01:51:42.400 --> 01:51:44.160 gave us. 01:51:44.160 --> 01:51:47.440 And then verse twenty for I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds 01:51:47.440 --> 01:51:50.880 that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom 01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:51.840 of heaven. 01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:54.000 Now of course part of that is the gospel because what Christ 01:51:54.000 --> 01:51:57.280 is saying is, you can't do this, it's impossible. 01:51:57.280 --> 01:51:58.880 You have to be perfect. 01:51:58.880 --> 01:52:01.360 And you can only be perfect if you're in Christ. 01:52:01.360 --> 01:52:03.440 Apart from me, you can do nothing. 01:52:03.440 --> 01:52:07.760 These are verses that all of you should have memorized. 01:52:07.760 --> 01:52:12.960 But of course, perhaps the most relevant verse in this area is 01:52:13.120 --> 01:52:16.240 Revelation 2218. 01:52:16.240 --> 01:52:19.520 This is the one that should come to mind every time the 01:52:19.520 --> 01:52:24.080 issue of the Septuagint versus the so called Hebrew comes up. 01:52:24.080 --> 01:52:28.240 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this 01:52:28.240 --> 01:52:32.880 book, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the 01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:35.520 plagues described in this book. 01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:38.400 And if any one takes away from the words of the book 01:52:38.400 --> 01:52:42.320 of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree 01:52:42.320 --> 01:52:45.760 of life and in the holy city, which are described in this 01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:52.960 book. God threatens those who would tamper with his word, with 01:52:52.960 --> 01:52:58.480 plagues, diseases, curses, and hellfire. 01:52:58.480 --> 01:53:03.040 That should terrify anyone who thinks that he can play games with 01:53:03.040 --> 01:53:06.000 God's word, who thinks he can just change things because he feels 01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:08.560 like it, or he doesn't like how this is worded or that 01:53:08.560 --> 01:53:12.000 is said, or maybe it would align better, or I can harmonize 01:53:12.000 --> 01:53:15.680 that no, you do not get to play games with God's word, 01:53:15.680 --> 01:53:19.520 and God threatens to damn you forever if you do it. 01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:22.720 And yet down through the centuries, apparently men have just ignored this 01:53:22.720 --> 01:53:27.520 warning. And for those who aren't clear on the point, John is 01:53:27.520 --> 01:53:28.640 a prophet. 01:53:28.640 --> 01:53:31.600 John is the last alive. 01:53:31.600 --> 01:53:36.160 John lives to basically a hundred years old. 01:53:36.160 --> 01:53:40.000 He is writing and clicking out the New Testament and he knows 01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:44.160 it. He knows that he is the last author of Scripture. 01:53:44.160 --> 01:53:47.360 So this applies not just to the Book of Revelation, this applies 01:53:47.360 --> 01:53:50.800 to the Book of God, which we call the Bible. 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:55.840 This applies to the Old Testament, equally and the New Testament. 01:53:55.840 --> 01:54:00.640 If you add or subtract anything, God threatens to curse you, in 01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:03.360 the strongest of terms. 01:54:03.360 --> 01:54:06.240 And yet what did the rabbis do to Scripture? 01:54:06.240 --> 01:54:07.760 What have we proved? 01:54:07.760 --> 01:54:11.120 In particular the two New Testament episodes, but also the Old Testament 01:54:11.120 --> 01:54:12.800 episodes and all along? 01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:14.800 They edited Scripture. 01:54:14.800 --> 01:54:20.240 They removed things, they added things, particularly they removed prophecies that concerned 01:54:20.240 --> 01:54:24.240 the Christ, promises to the nations, all the sorts of things that 01:54:24.240 --> 01:54:26.080 you would expect them to remove. 01:54:26.080 --> 01:54:29.520 And they added things where it benefited the Jews. 01:54:29.520 --> 01:54:30.640 Because that was their goal. 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:32.080 They don't care about God. 01:54:32.080 --> 01:54:36.080 If they cared about God, they would preserve his word exactly as 01:54:36.080 --> 01:54:37.280 he gave it to them. 01:54:37.280 --> 01:54:39.040 They didn't do that. 01:54:39.040 --> 01:54:42.320 And part of the reason that they didn't do that is because 01:54:42.320 --> 01:54:45.200 they were wicked and faithless and God cursed them and took away 01:54:45.200 --> 01:54:49.920 their language, and their nation, took everything from them. 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:52.960 And don't think that God won't do the same to those to 01:54:52.960 --> 01:54:54.880 day who do not obey Him. 01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:58.160 Because God is the same yesterday, to day and to morrow. 01:54:58.160 --> 01:55:02.160 Those who are not faithful to God will always be cursed. 01:55:02.160 --> 01:55:04.880 And God is not slow as men count slowness. 01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:06.960 God is not lax. 01:55:06.800 --> 01:55:13.280 God simply does things in Kairos, the perfect timing. 01:55:13.280 --> 01:55:15.840 And so Josias was right. 01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:19.760 Repent. Dust and sack cloth to rip his clothing, to rend his 01:55:19.760 --> 01:55:23.280 garments. That is the correct response when you see the sort of 01:55:23.280 --> 01:55:24.880 wickedness that had happened. 01:55:24.880 --> 01:55:28.160 And the same thing happened to us. 01:55:28.160 --> 01:55:31.200 And perhaps the most ridiculous part is that it's almost an exact 01:55:31.600 --> 01:55:34.240 equivalent. They lost it in a wall. 01:55:34.240 --> 01:55:38.160 We have the Codex Vaticanos sitting in the Vatican Library. 01:55:38.160 --> 01:55:41.520 Granted, good luck getting access to the high resolution scans because the 01:55:41.520 --> 01:55:46.400 Vatican has decided to copyright and watermark them, which which is unbelievably 01:55:46.400 --> 01:55:47.440 abominable 01:55:48.320 --> 01:55:49.600 but it still exists. 01:55:49.600 --> 01:55:53.040 We have the physical copy of the Septuagint still. 01:55:53.040 --> 01:55:55.520 We have the Word of God preserved in the Greek. 01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:59.280 Thankfully, we've preserved it better than hiding it in a wall. 01:55:59.760 --> 01:56:03.280 But storing it down in the basement, in the sub-basement of the 01:56:03.280 --> 01:56:07.120 Vatican, is not that much better. 01:56:07.120 --> 01:56:12.640 Thankfully, today we have access because we have actual copies, facsimiles, of 01:56:12.640 --> 01:56:13.280 this thing. 01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:15.920 I have it open in Lagos. 01:56:15.920 --> 01:56:18.160 It's not like it used to be where the copy lost in 01:56:18.160 --> 01:56:21.200 the wall was the copy, or one of only a handful that 01:56:21.200 --> 01:56:25.040 existed. So we're not in quite as bad of a situation, certainly 01:56:25.040 --> 01:56:27.120 as the Old Testament Israelites. 01:56:27.120 --> 01:56:31.920 But what we have done is almost equivalent, it's actually almost worse, 01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:34.960 because many of those living in that time had no access to 01:56:34.960 --> 01:56:35.680 this thing. 01:56:35.680 --> 01:56:39.120 We've had access to the Septuagint all along. 01:56:39.120 --> 01:56:42.400 Yes. You have always been able to buy a copy of it. 01:56:42.400 --> 01:56:46.240 We simply stopped using it as God's Word because we forgot that 01:56:46.240 --> 01:56:47.200 it was God's Word. 01:56:47.200 --> 01:56:49.440 We didn't just forget that a book existed. 01:56:49.440 --> 01:56:53.440 We forgot that this thing possibly sitting on your shelf is indeed 01:56:53.440 --> 01:56:55.280 the word of God. 01:56:55.280 --> 01:56:58.720 As a sort of aside, I want to use a phrase that 01:56:58.720 --> 01:57:02.400 has been used in higher criticism and elsewhere I know those of 01:57:02.400 --> 01:57:05.200 you who are familiar with that are going to recoil at that. 01:57:05.200 --> 01:57:06.000 That's fine. 01:57:06.000 --> 01:57:08.240 That's the right response. 01:57:08.240 --> 01:57:12.400 But it's useful here because it's appropriate and it's true. 01:57:12.400 --> 01:57:15.520 Some of those who try to critique the Bible will say that 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:21.920 it contains God's Word, but not that it is God's Word. 01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:26.000 This is actually true with regard to the so called Hebrew. 01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:30.800 The Masoretic text contains God's Word in many places, because in many 01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:34.880 places it agrees with the Septuagint, but it is not God's word, 01:57:34.880 --> 01:57:36.640 because it has been altered. 01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:40.000 The Septuagint is God's Word. 01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:42.960 And so that statement that they try to use to denigrate God's 01:57:42.960 --> 01:57:47.920 word is absolutely true, but only with respect to the corrupted text 01:57:47.920 --> 01:57:50.560 given to us by the rabbis. 01:57:50.560 --> 01:57:53.920 And so thankfully God has preserved us because he preserved so much 01:57:53.920 --> 01:57:57.520 of his word despite the evil of the Jews, despite their wickedness, 01:57:57.520 --> 01:58:02.880 despite their deliberate corruption of his word, he preserved enough to preserve 01:58:02.880 --> 01:58:06.400 his church down through the centuries, so that we could go and 01:58:06.400 --> 01:58:10.080 rediscover his word hiding in a basement. 01:58:10.080 --> 01:58:15.840 And I want to reemphasize the curses that God speaks in many 01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:20.240 places with regard to those who speak on behalf of God when 01:58:20.400 --> 01:58:24.400 God is not spoken, or extend the word of God, or diminish 01:58:24.400 --> 01:58:28.640 the word of God, or add or subtract as Revelation says. 01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:34.560 Those curses should absolutely terrify everyone. 01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:38.160 Whatever God's Word says is what God's Word says. 01:58:38.160 --> 01:58:39.840 We don't get to change it. 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:42.640 Doesn't matter if we like it or dislike it, we should like 01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:44.720 it, because of course we should love the Word of the Lord, 01:58:44.720 --> 01:58:47.200 as the Psalm says. 01:58:47.200 --> 01:58:49.440 God's Word is God's Word. 01:58:49.440 --> 01:58:50.800 It is unchanging. 01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:53.120 It does endure in eternity. 01:58:53.120 --> 01:58:56.560 Because God is unchanging and His Word flows from His nature. 01:58:56.560 --> 01:58:59.840 Because it is truth and God is. 01:58:59.840 --> 01:59:02.400 Whatever it says, we accept it. 01:59:02.400 --> 01:59:04.240 And that is what the Septuagint says. 01:59:04.240 --> 01:59:09.280 So if it disagrees with your confession or my confession, anyone's confession, 01:59:09.280 --> 01:59:12.640 this theologian that you like, this theologian that I like, that doesn't 01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:14.720 matter at all at all. 01:59:14.720 --> 01:59:19.040 And quite frankly, most of those men were pretty faithful. 01:59:19.040 --> 01:59:22.240 If they had been confronted with this argument and this mountain of 01:59:22.240 --> 01:59:26.000 evidence, they would have repented and burned their own writings insofar as 01:59:26.000 --> 01:59:27.840 they disagreed with the Septuagint 01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:31.440 which would have been the right response. 01:59:31.440 --> 01:59:34.640 And so we're going to be faced with that sort of question 01:59:35.120 --> 01:59:39.120 in the coming days, and months and years. 01:59:39.120 --> 01:59:42.960 What are we going to do now that we know beyond the 01:59:42.960 --> 01:59:48.240 shadow of any reasonable doubt, beyond the shadow of any doubt whatsoever, 01:59:48.240 --> 01:59:50.400 that the Septuagint is the Word of God. 01:59:50.400 --> 01:59:55.040 It is his preserved word in the Greek, which he caused to 01:59:55.040 --> 01:59:59.680 be translated, he caused to be preserved, he has miraculously preserved for 01:59:59.680 --> 02:00:04.560 us down through the centuries, despite our own stupidity and wickedness, our 02:00:04.560 --> 02:00:07.520 own apathy, our own negligence. 02:00:07.520 --> 02:00:10.480 The fact that we did not do our part of the deal, 02:00:10.480 --> 02:00:14.080 we didn't do our duty in preserving his word and transmitting it 02:00:14.080 --> 02:00:18.080 to future generations, as is mentioned so many times in the Scriptures. 02:00:18.080 --> 02:00:21.600 One of the duties of fathers and grandfathers is to see that 02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:24.400 the word is faithfully transmitted to future generations. 02:00:24.400 --> 02:00:28.240 That most certainly includes transmitting the actual word. 02:00:28.240 --> 02:00:31.840 Yes, explaining it, yes, teaching it, yes ensuring the next generation and 02:00:31.840 --> 02:00:35.280 the one after that know God's word, are familiar with it, respect 02:00:35.280 --> 02:00:36.720 it, hold it dear. 02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:41.360 But if you don't even transmit the word itself, it doesn't ultimately 02:00:41.360 --> 02:00:42.800 even matter what else you've done. 02:00:42.800 --> 02:00:46.960 You've fallen so far short of your duty that you have simply 02:00:46.960 --> 02:00:51.040 failed. It's not to say that our ancestors were all faithless, because 02:00:51.040 --> 02:00:54.240 many of them were trying to be faithful men. 02:00:54.240 --> 02:00:59.360 Unfortunately they were operating under false presumptions and presuppositions. 02:01:00.240 --> 02:01:04.080 They thought things about the texts that they had that they'd received 02:01:04.080 --> 02:01:07.040 from the rabbis that simply weren't true. 02:01:07.040 --> 02:01:11.360 And so we cannot say without caveat or footnote, as it were, 02:01:11.360 --> 02:01:17.120 that the men who went before us were faithless, because faithless is 02:01:17.120 --> 02:01:19.920 too strong of a word. 02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:23.280 But they were not as faithful as they should have been, in 02:01:23.280 --> 02:01:27.360 some cases due to simple error, in some cases due to other 02:01:27.360 --> 02:01:31.440 things. This is, of course, speaking only of those Christian men who 02:01:31.440 --> 02:01:35.520 went before us, because there were plenty of malefactors who are Certainly 02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:41.120 receiving their eternal reward currently, according to the words of Revelation. 02:01:41.360 --> 02:01:45.200 We know now what the Word of God is. 02:01:45.200 --> 02:01:48.640 We know the Word of God is the Septuagint. 02:01:48.640 --> 02:01:52.240 We know the Word of God is in the Greek. 02:01:52.240 --> 02:01:56.000 We know that the extant versions of the Old Testament that we 02:01:56.000 --> 02:02:00.400 have in our various languages, whatever language happens to be your first 02:02:00.400 --> 02:02:04.160 language, for most of our audience is of course English, but quite 02:02:04.160 --> 02:02:08.160 a bit of French and German and other things as well. 02:02:08.160 --> 02:02:15.280 Those translations are based on corrupted documents, on a corrupted 02:02:15.280 --> 02:02:21.600 source, on the muddy stream of the rabbinic text. 02:02:21.600 --> 02:02:26.960 We have the pure spring of the Greek, of the Septuagint. 02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:31.360 We will speak more about where to go from here in the 02:02:31.360 --> 02:02:34.320 final episode in the overall series. 02:02:34.320 --> 02:02:36.720 But we all know what we have to do. 02:02:36.720 --> 02:02:39.520 We all know we need a new translation of the Old Testament, 02:02:39.520 --> 02:02:42.480 a faithful one that uses the Greek, and does not use the 02:02:42.880 --> 02:02:47.200 rabbinic text in any way, shape, or form, that doesn't reference it, 02:02:47.200 --> 02:02:50.800 that doesn't look at it, that doesn't think about it during the 02:02:50.800 --> 02:02:56.640 translation process, and that has some obvious conclusions that come alongside. 02:02:57.200 --> 02:03:01.200 It's not a small task, but it's also not an impossible one. 02:03:01.200 --> 02:03:04.400 Because again God preserved his word, as he promised. 02:03:04.400 --> 02:03:05.680 We still have it. 02:03:05.680 --> 02:03:08.160 We know Greek because Greek was never lost. 02:03:08.160 --> 02:03:11.040 Unlike the Hebrew that was completely lost, the Greek language was never 02:03:11.040 --> 02:03:16.240 lost. And so we still have the text, we still have the 02:03:16.240 --> 02:03:18.640 tools, we can do this. 02:03:18.640 --> 02:03:22.320 This is not an impossible task that God has set before us. 02:03:22.320 --> 02:03:25.440 As I've said before in previous episodes, we should really look at 02:03:25.440 --> 02:03:26.640 this as a blessing. 02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:30.560 Because God has given us a great gift, preserved it for us, 02:03:30.560 --> 02:03:32.560 made it accessible to us. 02:03:32.560 --> 02:03:37.440 We have an opportunity Opportunity that has been there all along. 02:03:37.440 --> 02:03:38.640 Down through the centuries. 02:03:38.640 --> 02:03:42.240 This opportunity has been there sitting in the archives waiting for someone 02:03:42.240 --> 02:03:45.440 to come along and say, hey, wait a minute. 02:03:45.440 --> 02:03:51.120 But now we know, and now this fact that the Septuagint is 02:03:51.120 --> 02:03:54.000 the word of God, is the preserved word of God 02:03:54.880 --> 02:03:56.560 is spreading. 02:03:56.560 --> 02:03:58.320 Many men know this. 02:03:58.320 --> 02:04:02.080 Unfortunately, many clerics are going to double down on Hebrew, they are 02:04:02.080 --> 02:04:04.720 going to double down on the wickedness, and they are going to 02:04:04.720 --> 02:04:08.800 suffer the curses along with the rabbis. 02:04:08.800 --> 02:04:14.480 Because if you understand the argument that we have made thus far, 02:04:14.480 --> 02:04:18.320 there's absolutely no way you can possibly reject the conclusion. 02:04:18.320 --> 02:04:23.360 The simple fact is that the Septuagint is the word of God. 02:04:23.360 --> 02:04:26.880 The rabbis added to the Word of God, they subtracted from the 02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:32.880 Word of God, they are cursed, and anyone who decides to stick 02:04:32.880 --> 02:04:36.560 with their text will join them in those curses. 02:04:36.560 --> 02:04:42.080 Because of course it is significantly worse to do something knowingly than 02:04:42.080 --> 02:04:45.440 to do something accidentally or even negligently. 02:04:45.440 --> 02:04:51.120 Negligence is bad enough, but knowingly using a corrupted version of the 02:04:51.120 --> 02:04:55.840 old Testament text, when you know it is corrupted, when you know 02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:59.280 that there is a pristine version, when you know there is a 02:04:59.280 --> 02:05:03.040 true and faithful version that exists that is accessible That you should 02:05:03.040 --> 02:05:04.720 be using? 02:05:04.720 --> 02:05:07.360 That is an entirely different matter. 02:05:07.360 --> 02:05:11.520 Knowing sin is always worse than unknowing sin. 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:12.800 Both are sin. 02:05:12.800 --> 02:05:14.960 You can sin without knowing it. 02:05:14.960 --> 02:05:21.200 But it is far worse to be a high-handed impenitent sinner. 02:05:21.200 --> 02:05:23.680 You do not want to join the rabbis. 02:05:23.680 --> 02:05:25.920 What does Christ say of the rabbis? 02:05:25.920 --> 02:05:29.280 You travel over land and sea to make a proselyte, and make 02:05:29.280 --> 02:05:32.320 him twice the son of hell as you. 02:05:32.320 --> 02:05:35.200 That is what the man who decides to double down on the 02:05:35.200 --> 02:05:39.200 Hebrew, so called, to double down on the rabbinic text, that is 02:05:39.200 --> 02:05:43.040 what he is and will become. 02:05:43.040 --> 02:05:45.440 And so the way forward is simple. 02:05:45.440 --> 02:05:47.040 We have the Old Testament. 02:05:47.040 --> 02:05:48.240 We have it in Greek. 02:05:48.240 --> 02:05:51.520 We need a new translation, a number of new translations in various 02:05:51.520 --> 02:05:57.040 languages. But it is an entirely achievable task, and it is not 02:05:57.040 --> 02:05:59.760 an optional one. 02:05:59.760 --> 02:06:05.600 We cannot rely on this corrupted text passed to us by the 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:10.960 Christ killing, Christ denying and Christian cursing rabbis. 02:06:10.960 --> 02:06:14.320 We have to rely on the Word of God as He preserved 02:06:14.320 --> 02:06:18.160 it, because He preserved it in Greek because He intended it to 02:06:18.160 --> 02:06:22.800 be preserved in Greek, as I said, it fulfills the Prophecy of 02:06:22.960 --> 02:06:25.520 Father Noah. 02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:27.120 Noah was a prophet. 02:06:27.120 --> 02:06:29.200 He was speaking the words of God. 02:06:29.200 --> 02:06:32.960 He said that Japheth will dwell in the tents of Shem What 02:06:32.960 --> 02:06:36.240 greater fulfillment of that could there possibly be than God causing his 02:06:36.400 --> 02:06:40.400 word to be translated into a European language that all of the 02:06:40.400 --> 02:06:44.320 sons of Japheth would be able to read and translate into their 02:06:44.320 --> 02:06:48.880 own tongues with almost trivial ease. 02:06:48.880 --> 02:06:51.200 God is true to His Word. 02:06:51.200 --> 02:06:52.960 God is true to His promises. 02:06:52.960 --> 02:06:56.560 God's prophecies always come true. 02:06:56.560 --> 02:07:00.720 The prophecy of Noah with regard to Japheth came true, the promise 02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:05.200 of God to preserve his word came true, the words of Christ 02:07:05.200 --> 02:07:09.840 that neither Iota nor Seraph will be lost, have been true and 02:07:09.840 --> 02:07:11.040 will remain true. 02:07:11.040 --> 02:07:13.760 It is It simply falls to us to do our duty as 02:07:13.760 --> 02:07:16.880 Christian men and to be faithful to God. 02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:21.680 The next handful of years are going to sift the wheat from 02:07:21.680 --> 02:07:26.720 the chaff, because there will undoubtedly be those who double down on 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:31.520 the rabbinic text, who double down on the so-called Hebrew, and in 02:07:31.520 --> 02:07:34.720 the process deny God and apostatize. 02:07:34.720 --> 02:07:36.720 That is going to happen. 02:07:36.720 --> 02:07:38.720 That is absolutely going to happen. 02:07:38.720 --> 02:07:42.160 I can tell you that now with complete certainty. 02:07:42.160 --> 02:07:45.440 What we want for those of you who are listening to this 02:07:45.440 --> 02:07:50.240 episode, who have listened to the series, is not to follow them. 02:07:50.400 --> 02:07:54.400 Don't take the broad path that leads ever downward. 02:07:54.400 --> 02:07:56.400 Take the narrow path. 02:07:56.400 --> 02:07:58.640 The only true path. 02:07:58.640 --> 02:08:03.280 Be faithful to God, obey His Word, believe in His actual Word. 02:08:03.920 --> 02:08:07.600 Believe that he has fulfilled his promises. 02:08:07.600 --> 02:08:09.280 It's that simple. 02:08:09.280 --> 02:08:12.720 It's not a complex task, but it is a difficult one. 02:08:12.720 --> 02:08:15.840 Because you are going to have pastors who are screeching about the 02:08:15.840 --> 02:08:21.040 Hebrew Jew, who are saying the most evil things about the Greek, 02:08:21.040 --> 02:08:23.200 about the Septuagint. 02:08:23.200 --> 02:08:27.120 Their condemnation and their eternity will be the worse for it. 02:08:27.120 --> 02:08:29.600 Don't fear them, don't join them. 02:08:29.600 --> 02:08:32.320 What can man do to me? 02:08:32.320 --> 02:08:36.240 Rely on God, rely on his word. 02:08:36.240 --> 02:08:41.200 Be firm in the conclusion, in your knowledge, your certainty, that the 02:08:41.200 --> 02:08:43.680 Septuagint is God's Word. 02:08:43.680 --> 02:08:47.680 I've laid out the argument, we laid out the history and the 02:08:47.680 --> 02:08:49.600 examples extensively. 02:08:49.600 --> 02:08:54.160 The argument is unassailable, and the conclusion is undeniable. 02:08:55.680 --> 02:09:00.240 But before I end this episode, I think it is appropriate that 02:09:00.240 --> 02:09:04.880 we end with the words of Christ, an example that we used 02:09:04.880 --> 02:09:07.360 in the previous episode. 02:09:07.360 --> 02:09:11.040 But I want to point out something different about the example here 02:09:11.280 --> 02:09:15.680 at the end of this series, and so reading from Luke four. 02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:18.960 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and 02:09:18.960 --> 02:09:21.680 as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath 02:09:21.760 --> 02:09:25.120 day, and he stood up to read, and the scroll of the 02:09:25.120 --> 02:09:27.120 prophet Isaiah was given to him. 02:09:27.120 --> 02:09:30.560 He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. 02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:34.880 Gagraman, another form of the same verb from which we get Gagrapti. 02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:39.520 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed 02:09:39.520 --> 02:09:42.320 me to proclaim good news to the poor. 02:09:42.320 --> 02:09:46.160 He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering 02:09:46.160 --> 02:09:49.040 of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are 02:09:49.040 --> 02:09:53.760 oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. 02:09:53.760 --> 02:09:58.000 We already pointed out how the wicked rabbis removed recovering of sight 02:09:58.000 --> 02:10:02.880 to the blind, such a key part of Christ's earthly ministry. 02:10:02.880 --> 02:10:07.280 And we also highlighted how the New Testament is essentially a quote, 02:10:07.280 --> 02:10:11.520 differing only very slightly from what is in the Septuagint. 02:10:11.520 --> 02:10:15.280 But I want to highlight that sort of preamble, the introduction to 02:10:15.280 --> 02:10:16.720 the quote here. 02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:19.200 What does it say that Christ did? 02:10:19.200 --> 02:10:23.360 He read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. 02:10:23.360 --> 02:10:27.200 The word there for scroll in the Greek is Biblion, the word 02:10:27.200 --> 02:10:30.160 from which we get Bible. 02:10:30.160 --> 02:10:35.280 He was reading from the Greek scroll of Isaiah, not from the 02:10:35.280 --> 02:10:38.640 so called great scroll of Isaiah that they want to pass off 02:10:38.800 --> 02:10:40.640 as some great find. 02:10:40.640 --> 02:10:44.000 No, he was reading from the Septuagint. 02:10:44.000 --> 02:10:49.120 That's why what he read matches the Septuagint. 02:10:49.120 --> 02:10:52.000 And I want you to think about the typology here as well, 02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:53.360 the connection to what is going on 02:10:54.320 --> 02:10:55.760 in our day? 02:10:55.760 --> 02:10:59.520 What part of Christ's ministry did they remove? 02:10:59.520 --> 02:11:02.560 The recovering of sight to the blind. 02:11:02.560 --> 02:11:06.640 Who is possibly more blind than he who believes something that is 02:11:06.640 --> 02:11:10.400 not the word of God is the word of God, or he 02:11:10.400 --> 02:11:14.080 who denies that what is the word of God is the Word 02:11:14.080 --> 02:11:17.840 of God, as so many faithless clerics are going to do in 02:11:17.840 --> 02:11:19.520 the coming years. 02:11:20.240 --> 02:11:24.480 It could not possibly be more obvious that the Scripture of the 02:11:24.480 --> 02:11:29.600 Early Church, the Scripture of the Apostles, and the Scripture of Christ 02:11:29.600 --> 02:11:33.840 Himself, who read from it, in the very pages of Scripture 02:11:35.200 --> 02:11:39.920 was and is the Septuagint, because that is the word of God 02:11:39.920 --> 02:11:46.240 that He preserved for His Church in order to preserve His Church. 02:11:46.240 --> 02:11:49.920 The way forward is simple, and the way forward is obvious. 02:11:49.920 --> 02:11:54.240 It will be difficult, but God is with us, and we will 02:11:54.240 --> 02:11:56.880 certainly need his help. 02:11:56.880 --> 02:12:01.760 But God has never abandoned his church, and he never will. 02:12:01.760 --> 02:12:03.520 Amen.