Paul Quoted Isaiah from the Septuagint

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> TILL

> Matthew Bell has asked for evidence that anything beyond the Pentateuch

> existed in a Septuagint version during the B. C. era.  In an earlier

> posting, I mentioned that I spent time last night comparing the NT Greek

> text of Romans with the Septuagint and found that Paul quoted extensively

> from the Septuagint.  Since most of his quotations are from OT books

other

> than the Pentateuch, this should be enough to convince Matt that more

than

> just the Pentateuch in the Septuagint version existed before the NT era.

> 

> An example of where Paul quoted Isaiah from the Septuagint can be found

in

> Romans 9:29, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had

become

> as Sodom and had been made like unto Gomorrah."

> 

> This is a quotation of Isaiah 1:9, which in the ASV translation of the

> Masoretic text reads like this: "Except Jehovah [Yahweh] of hosts had

left

> unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should

have

> been like unto Gomorrah."  Can the variation be accounted for from Hebrew

to

> English and Hebrew to Greek to English translations?  This becomes a poor

> explanation when Paul's Greek text is compared to the Septuagint Greek

text.

> They are both alike verbatim.

> 

> The Greek Text: "ei me kurios sabaoth egkatelipen enin sperma os sodoma

an

> egenethemen kai os gomorra an homoiothemen."

> 

> The Septuagint: ""ei me kurios sabaoth egkatelipen emin sperma os sodoma

an

> egenthemen kai os gomorra an homoiothemen."

> 

> If Matt would take the time to do some comparisons like this, maybe he

would

> get off this Septuagint kick that he is on for no other reason except to

try

> to justify a KJV-supremacy view.  At any rate, can you imagine what he

would

> be saying about us if we should deny a position of his that he could

support

> with evidence even halfway as convincing as the evidence that NT writers

> quoted frequently from the Septuagint version?


MATT BELL
No evidence has been presented as yet that establishes a BC
extra-Pentateuchal LXX. I have already noted that the LXX could have been
quoting the NT and not the other way around. Establish a BC
extra-Pentatuechal LXX and then we can state that the NT quoted it.

Thanks
Matt Bell

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