Re: LXX quotations

From: Martin Arhelger (martin.arhelger@metronet.de)
Date: Mon Feb 02 1998 - 03:23:09 EST


>Are all the OT quotations in the NT from the LXX, or are some directly
>from the Hebrew?

The writer of Hebrews is the only one I know who regularely uses the LXX
(and Luke often). Other writers of the NT sometimes differ from it e.g. in
Mat 26:31
and sometimes they differ from LXX a n d from the Masoretic text, e.g. Mat
2:6.

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