[B-Greek] Gen 25.23 and the LXX, in Rom 9.12
P R
prittman at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 22:55:30 EDT 2010
I am looking through the NT to see how reliant it was on the LXX, and I came
across Rom 9.12 ("The elder shall serve the younger").
I am looking at this verse as a most probable reference to the LXX, because
the word Paul used here for "younger," elasswn (think I got my TLG right),
is used only here in the NT to mean "younger." Elsewhere, it means "fewer"
or "less." The more common NT word was neos, which was used 4 times to mean
young, and another 8 times in its comparative form.
OK. Is this sufficient reason to see Paul as quoting from the LXX here, or
is there any other reason why elasswn might have been used here, whereby he
might simply have been translating whatever version of the OT he had, into
Greek? The Masoretic text has the same reading here.
Paul Rittman
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