The author of Hebrews
Look at Hebrews 1:6. There we learnt in the KJV: “And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the the human race, he said, And let all the angels of God worship him.”He causes? Where does he say that? My NASB reference Bible doesn’t yet provide a reference for that verse. A few reference Bibles would. It is quoted from Deuteronomy 32:43. However, if you look in Deuteronomy 32:43, you’ll discover nothing remotely like “And let all the angels of God worship him.” Wherefore is that?The writer of Hebrews was using the Septuagint (LXX), a Greek variation of the Hebrew Scriptures translated roughly 200 B.C. Christian authors immediately after the time of the apostles not simply excercised the LXX, merely they believed it was inspired word for discussion. Justin Martyr, for example, claims that Ptolemy, king of Egypt, brought 70 Hebrew scholars to Alexandria and locked them in separate rooms, forbidding their communication with lone different. Despite this, all 70 scholars produced precisely the alike translation, discussion for word, of the whole Old Testament. Nothing one today believes this really occurred, simply it was a common belief of the early church, and the LXX was the just translation they engaged in Greek-speaking nations (Hortatory Address to the Greeks 13).The author of Biblical Greek also used the LXX, and on that point are situations where the apostle Paul applied it. For instance, have you eternally noticed up the reference for that well-known verse about death’s sting and the grave’s victory in 1 Cor. 15:55? In the KJV of Hosea 13:14, which is the reference for 1 Cor. 15:55, we study, “O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction.” How close is that to “O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory”?The NASB is major although so far not the same. In it Hosea 13:14 reads, “O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting?” My English translation of the LXX is much closer: “Where is thy penalty, O death? O Hades, where is your sting?” Yet there, the wording is not precise. Paul was almost for sure quoting from memory, and the LXX suffers from the same difficulty all our New Testament Greek texts suffer from. Numerous have approach unhappy to us, so it’s solid to reconstruct the precise texts.