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112 CITATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT [ EXERC. V.
the original, and all translations besides the Syriac and the Arabic, which are made out of it (though the Syriac follows it not in the confused transpositions that are made of Jeremiah’s prophecies, from chap. xxv. to chap. xl, as the Arabic doth), is only to be considered ; which shall be done so soon as we have recounted the remaining testimonies, whereof some are attended with the same difficulty.
9. CHap. IX. ver. 20. Toiro rb aiwa rig dsadnuns, Hs eversiAuro mpds ies 6 Osé¢-—“ This is the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined unto you.” From Exod. xxiv. 8. The sense of the Hebrew text is alluded unto, not the words absolutely. The LXX., ’1d0d +d alma rio O1ebhnuns Hs Oiebero Kipiog wxpds dwe%o, with much difference from the words of the apostle.
10. CHAP. X. ver. 5. Ouoiav xual arpospopdy odin HbEAnous, oma OE narnprice wor—“ Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have, a body thou hast prepared me.” From Ps. xl. 6. So also the LXX., both with great difference from the original: for *? 272 D8, “ My ears hast thou digged,” or “bored,” is rendered, “A body thou hast prepared me.” Of the reason of which difference and agreement we shall treat afterwards.
Ver. 6. ‘Orcxaurimara nal wep! &mapriag obn evddxnoass-—“In burnt- offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.” Heb., aN X?, “Thou hast not required.” The apostle expresseth exactly the sense of the Holy Ghost, but observes not the first, exact signifi- cation of the word. The LXX., 7rycus, and in some copies eZirnous, “soughtest not.”
Ver. 7. “Idod 4nw (ev xeparsds Bi€rlou yéypamran wep) éwod) rov wromous, 6 Osdg, rd JEAnw&d cour-— Behold, I come (in the head, or beginning, of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God:” that is, Gen. iii. 15. Heb., pp -nd3Aa ;—“In the roll of the book.” Symmachus, "Ey r@ rebyer rod bprou0d-—“ In the volume of thy determination.” Aquila, Ey +@ <idjwarr —“In the roll.” °Ev réuq»—“ In the section.” LXX., Tod roijous rd JEAnuc cov 6 Osd pov 4Covrgdnv—*“ I was willing to do thy will, O my God.” *
Ver 38. ‘O 6: dimasg ex wriorews (LXX., mov) Choerau” nad édv daroo- reine, obx evdone? 4 Puy wou év avrg-—“ But if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” From Hab. ii. 4. The words of the prophet are transposed, and the beginning of the last clause much altered. 12 152 MY -N? N2BY N1,—*“ Behold, it is lifted up, his soul is not right in him.” But the sense and intendment of the Holy Ghost is preserved, as shall be manifested.
11. Cap. XII. ver. 5, 6. 172 wou (wov is not in the LXX.; Heb., 23, “my son,”) m7) dArywper wedelag Kupfou, und: exrvov, ba’ abrod éreyydumevos: ov yap ayard Kbps, wosdeder (LXX., eréyxer, and in some copies ra- deter, from this place of the apostle,) waoriyor 02 rdvrm viv by rapadé- xerusrr—“ My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
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faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” From Prov, iii, 11,12. 77 any ass}; —“ And as a father the son whom he delighteth in.” The sense is retained, but the words not exactly repeated. Aquila, DIAN, MA) darodonincoov, “Reject not,” YPN), Theodotion, M7d% éynaxjons, “ Neither vex thyself.”
12. Coap. XIII. ver. 5. Ob yy 08 davai, 060 0b wy 08 eynarurlro— “JT will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.” From Josh. i. 5. The LXX., in different words, Ovx tyxurarsinpw oz, odd uaeps- powos oe-— I will not leave thee, neither will I despise thee.” The apostle’s words exactly express the original.
Ver. 6 is from Ps, exviii. 6, without any difficulty attending it.
13. And these are all the places that are cited, xaré parév, by the apostle in this Epistle out of the Old Testament. Very many others there are, which he either alludes unto or expounds, that are not of our present consideration. Neither are these here proposed to be unfolded as to the sense of them, or as to the removal of the diffi- culties that the application of them by him is attended withal. This is the proper work of the Exposition of the Epistle intended. All at present aimed at is, to present them in one view, with their agreement and differences from the original and translations, that we may the better judge of his manner of proceeding in the citing of them, and what rule he observed therein. And what in general may be concluded from that prospect we have taken of them, I shall ofter in the ensuing observations :—
14, First, it is evident that they are exceedingly mistaken who affirm that the apostle cites all his testimonies out of the trans- lation of the LXX., as we intimated is by some pleaded, in the close of the preceding discourse. The words he useth, in very few of them agree exactly with that Greek version of the Old Testament which is now extant,—though apparently, since the writing of this Epistle, it hath grown in its verbal conformity unto the allegations as reported in the New; and in most of them he varieth from it, either in the use of his own liberty, or in a more exact rendering of the original text. This the first prospect of the places and words compared will evince. Should he have had any respect unto that translation, it were impossible to give any tolerable account whence he should so much differ from it almost in every quotation, as is plain that he doth.