[B-Greek] Another Latin LXX quote
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Wed May 28 13:22:44 EDT 2003
"the New (Testament) concealed in the Old (Testament)"
Al
bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:
> 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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