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  • I'm no scholar, but when you ask them what they think about how the Book of Job is translated in the AngloSaxon version, versus the septuagint, and point out that if all these texts were considered canonical when they're contradictory then there's a problem with literality... they back of slowly as you chase them asking their thoughts on the dead sea scrolls :

    Disability and Freethinking Kay Olson 2008

  • Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision

  • Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake hell's gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Jerome: Joseph was not sold as many, following the LXX [septuagint], think for twenty pieces of gold, but as the Hebrew text has for twenty pieces of silver, [marg. note: Gen 37: 28] for it could not be that the servant should be more valuable than his Master.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • Not to mention the Iscariot which Le Verrier and Adams calculated into existence, there is more than a septuagint of _new_ planetoids.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • In the time of Alexander, just a septuagint of years from the epoch of this unfortunate Cyrus, the most considerable troops of Darius were Greeks.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • October 15th, 2008 at 4: 22 pm actually the kaballah and the mishnah are both pagan religons as well but came after the torah and septuagint

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Of this word, Mr. Trench says: 'From the fact that the septuagint translates the same Hebrew word now by doulos, now by therapon, it will not follow that there is no difference between the words; nor yet that there may not be occasions when the one would be far more appropriately employed than the other; but only that there are other occasions which do not require the bringing out into prominence, of that which constitutes the difference between them.

    Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments. 1864

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