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Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-26-2014, 08:47 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog I think I remember reading that the Qumran texts lined up more with the LXX. But they were not identical in all respects (the details of which I am not sure). So it is probably not simply a case,...

Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-26-2014, 05:48 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog Yes I believe the LXX is the oldest extant (i.e. original) text. I am not too clear on the Dead Sea Scrolls, though. Certainly the LXX was the older version, before the DSS were discovered in the...

Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-26-2014, 05:46 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog Think about Martha and Mary for one moment. Both were women, who in the patricentric world were in much lesser status. Women were barely above the social and legal status of slaves. Yet they both...

Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-26-2014, 05:01 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog My opinion is that the Septuagint (LXX) is preferred. My understanding is that it was made from the original Hebrew text, and was in wide circulation in Christ's day. Most of the NT quotations, both...

Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-25-2014, 09:10 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog Two points, quickly: one is that reading these Apostolic Fathers, and other books like the Philokalia, show me the unbroken string of witnesses stretching back to the apostles themselves. I am often...

Forum: Blogosphere @ LocalChurchDiscussions 06-25-2014, 09:03 AM

Replies: 102 InChristAlone's Blog Views: 82,955 Posted By aron Re: InChristAlone's Blog Sorry to come so late into an interesting discussion. I obviously agree with all the words above, which come from the holy scriptures. But I notice that the holy scriptures also say, "Surely I was...

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