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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011
abbreviated forms of the Sacred Names, with the Tetragram being replaced by
abbreviated forms of KURIOS and THEOS, and that some Jewish renderings of the
LXX retained the Tetra gram.
Evidence of support for the WTS's case they are most definitely not. The NT is a
product of Christian thought and practice.
The conclusion that must be arrived at with our state of knowledge is that:
"We now know that the Greek Bible (or the LXX, the OT) text, as far as it was
translated by JEWS FOR JEWS did not translate the Divine name KYRIOS, but the
Tetragrammaton written with Hebrew or Greek letters was retained. ... It was the
Christians who replaced the Tetragrammaton by KYRIOS, when the divine name
written in Hebrew letters was not understood any more". [8]
It is the action of the CHRISTIANS that is of vital significance, not the
actions of the Jews, for it was the Christians who wrote and produced the
writings now called the New Testament.
The evidence is that the Christians replaced the Tetragram in the LXX (the
OT) with surrogates, and that in the writings they produced (the NT) the
Christians did not follow the Hebrew practice regarding the writing of Sacred
Names, but they developed their own forms in their very earliest years with a
technique now termed NOMINA SACRA.
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