New Testament Jehovah Quotes

GregStffrd at aol.com GregStffrd at aol.com
Fri Sep 15 22:49:26 EDT 2000


In a message dated 09/15/2000 2:53:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dd-1 at juno.com 
writes:

<< 
 I've heard that there is ms evidence that the LXX
 at one time had YHWH.  I checked my copy of
 Brenton at a few places, and all the references
 came up KURIOS.  Does anyone have any info
 on this?
 
 Thanks! >>


Yes. In fact, all pre-second century CE LXX manuscripts that preserve a 
translated portion of the Hebrew text where the divine name occurs, also use 
a form of the divine name. Thus, there is a very strong likelihood that the 
original NT docs also used a form of the divine name, as the evidence we have 
shows that all sources used by the NT authors when quoting the OT contained 
some form of the divine name. 

Of course, the later Christian LXX mss. do not use the divine name, so it is 
really no surprise to find later NT mss. similarly without use of the divine 
name. The question we have to ask is, if they  removed the divine name from 
what was considered inspired Scripture (the LXX), then what would keep these 
same persons from doing the same thing to NT docs, many of which were not 
placed on equal footing with the LXX?

Greg Stafford



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