An Answer to the Jews — Chapter 7

1

The reference is to Isa. xlv. 1. A glance at the LXX. will at once explain the difference between the reading of our author and the genuine reading. One letter—an “ι”—makes all the difference. For Κύρῳ has been read Κυρίῳ. In the Eng. ver. we read “His Anointed.”

2

Ps. xix. 4 (xviii. 5. in LXX.) and Rom. x. 18.

3

See Acts ii. 9, 10; but comp. ver. 5.

4

See Isa. xlv. 1, 2 (especially in Lowth’s version and the LXX.).

5

See 1 Kings iv. 25. (In the LXX. it is 3 Kings iv. 25; but the verse is omitted in Tischendorf’s text, ed. Lips. 1860, though given in his footnotes there.) The statement in the text differs slightly from Oehler’s reading; where I suspect there is a transposition of a syllable, and that for “in finibus Judæ tantum, a Bersabeæ,” we ought to read “in finibus Judææ tantum, a Bersabe.” See de Jej. c. ix.

6

See Esth. i. 1; viii. 9.

7

[Dr. Allix thinks these statements define the Empire after Severus, and hence accepts the date we have mentioned, for this treatise.]

8

Comp. John xx. 28.

Chapter 7

Chapter VII.—The Question Whether Christ Be Come Taken Up.

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