[B-Greek] Another Latin LXX quote

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Wed May 28 13:15:28 EDT 2003


Deissmann makes this statement re. the value of the LXX:

"All honour to the Hebrew original! But the proverbial ~Novum in Vetere
latet~ cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of the Septuagint. A
single hour lovingly directed to the Septuagint will further our exegetical
knowledge of the Pauline Epistles more than a whole day spent over a
commentary" (Adolf Deissmann, *The Philology of the Greek Bible* [London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1908], 12).

I'd appreciate an accurate translation of ~Novum in Vetere latet~.

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