The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 2

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 10 Sep 2025

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      This episode is our closing argument for the Septuagint (LXX) and its proper place as the Word of God — the Scripture of the Early Church, the Apostles, and Christ Himself. Once you have finished this episode, you will need to decide for yourself if you believe the argument as presented or if you intend to double down on the ‘Hebrew’ the rabbis smuggled into the churches. The question is one of fidelity to God and to His Word, and it is a question that will split the churches, that will sift the wheat from the chaff.

      “But I and my household will serve the Lord, because He is holy.”

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      Show Notes

      1. Romans 2:24 → Isaiah 52:5
      2. Romans 3:4 → Psalm 51:4 (LXX Psalm 50:6)
      3. Romans 9:25b → Hosea 2:23
      4. Romans 9:27 → Isaiah 10:22
      5. Romans 9:27-28 → Isaiah 10:22-23
      6. Romans 9:29 → Isaiah 1:9
      7. Romans 9:33; 10:11 → Isaiah 28:16
      8. Romans 10:18 → Psalm 19:4 (LXX Ps 18:5. .
      9. Romans 11:10 → Psalm 69:23 (LXX Ps 68:24. …
      10. Romans 11:26b → Isaiah 59:20
      11. Romans 11:27 → Isaiah 27:9 (with Isa 59:21)
      12. Romans 11:34 → Isaiah 40:13
      13. Romans 12:19 → Deuteronomy 32:35
      14. Romans 14:11 → Isaiah 45:23
      15. Romans 15:12 → Isaiah 11:10
      16. 1 Corinthians 2:16 → Isaiah 40:13 …
      17. 1 Corinthians 14:21 → Isaiah 28:11-12
      18. 1 Corinthians 15:54 → Isaiah 25:8
      19. 1 Corinthians 15:55 → Hosea 13:14
      20. 1 Corinthians 1:31 and 2 Corinthians 10:17 – Jeremiah 9:24
      21. 2 Corinthians 4:13 → Psalm 116:10 (LXX 115:1)
      22. Galatians 3:10 → Deuteronomy 27:26
      23. Galatians 3:13 → Deuteronomy 21:23
      24. Ephesians 4:26 → Psalm 4:4 (LXX 4:5)
      25. Ephesians 5:31 → Genesis 2:24
      26. Philippians 1:19 → Job 13:16
      27. Philippians 2:10-11 → Isaiah 45:23
      28. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 → Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21
      29. 2 Timothy 2:19a → Numbers 16:5 …
      30. Hebrews 1:6 → Deuteronomy 32:43 (LXX expanded line)
      31. Hebrews 1:10-12 → Psalm 102:25-27 (LXX 101:26-28)
      32. Hebrews 3:7-11 → Psalm 95:7-11 (LXX 94:7-11. …
      33. Hebrews 8:8-12 → Jeremiah 31:31-34 (LXX 38:31-34)
      34. Hebrews 10:5-7 → Psalm 40:6-8 (LXX 39:7-9)
      35. Hebrews 10:37-38 → Habakkuk 2:3-4
      36. Hebrews 11:21 → Genesis 47:31 …
      37. Hebrews 12:5-6 → Proverbs 3:11-12
      38. James 4:6 → Proverbs 3:34
      39. 1 Peter 2:6 → Isaiah 28:16
      40. 1 Peter 2:9 → Exodus 19:6 (phrase)
      41. 1 Peter 2:22 → Isaiah 53:9
      42. 1 Peter 4:18 → Proverbs 11:31
      43. 1 Peter 5:5 → Proverbs 3:34 (as in James 4:6)
      44. Revelation 2:27, 12:5, 19:15 – Psalm 2:9

      See Also

      Further Reading

      Parental Warnings

      None.

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      The Septuagint — Wisdom Literature

      Corey J. Mahler on Wed 02 Jul 2025

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          As between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text (MT), there are significant differences in the books that comprise the wisdom literature (i.e., Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon). These differences range from changes in diction through distortions and corruptions to outright additions and deletions (one should think of the warning in the Book of Revelation). Out treatment here is not (and is not intended to be) comprehensive — there are centuries of work ahead of the Church; rather, we intend to drive home the point that the only Christian reaction is to abandon and anathematize the ‘Hebrew’ passed to us by the rabbis in favor of the Greek passed to us by Christ, the Apostles, and our faithful forebears — and, most importantly of all, preserved by God, as He promised.

          Christ, the Apostles, and the early Church all unanimously held that the Septuagint is, indeed, the very Word of God. In this fifth episode in the (now) nine-episode LXX series, we examine differences between the LXX and the MT in the wisdom books (largely focusing on Proverbs). This is the second of three episodes dealing specifically with the Old Testament differences between the LXX and the MT.

          This is, of course, not our closing argument, for we will be making that in the two episodes that deal with the New Testament and how it treats the Old Testament.

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          Parental Warnings

          None.

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          The Septuagint — European History

          Corey J. Mahler on Wed 07 May 2025

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            Woe

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              The story of how Hebrew was smuggled into the Western Church is long and complicated; it spans centuries and involves hundreds of men. In this episode, we have narrowed down the story to a handful of key figures who played pivotal roles. At many points in this timeline, Christian men could have stood up and defended the inspired Greek of the Septuagint, but essentially none did so. At any point in this timeline, Christian men could have stood up and repudiated the wicked use of the Hebrew, but only two did so — both former (converted) Jews. Satan does not have the limitation of a lifespan of but eighty or so years, and he does not sleep or grow tired; the story of Hebrew is the story of Satan’s long-term plan to undermine and collapse the Western Church, and, with her, Christendom.

              In this second-half of the historical portion of the Septuagint series, we cover the history of the Western Church (from, roughly, Jerome to the Reformation) with regard to how Hebrew came to be used as the basis for the Old Testament. Notably, this history of the Septuagint is almost devoid of any actual use of the Septuagint by the men whose lives and actions make up the narrative, because we, like the Israelites of the Old Testament, left the Word of God sitting in a basement, abandoned and largely forgotten — and, worse, we accepted a corrupted counterfeit from rabbis and made it the basis of our translations. Mercifully and according to His promises, God preserved the Greek for us, and so we can undo the foolishness of centuries past — a topic we will take up in the last episode in this series.

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              Parental Warnings

              At the end of the episode, Luther is quoted and the quote includes the words “whore” and “slut”.

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              The Septuagint — Near Eastern History

              Corey J. Mahler on Wed 23 Apr 2025

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                  The Word of God has been preserved — miraculously — down through the ages, faithfully transmitted forward from past generations to us. This is according to God’s promises, and yet God nowhere (in the Old Testament) says which language He will use to accomplish this. Many have long claimed that God used Hebrew to do this, but the Hebrew language was never a true written language until the 20th century and, above and beyond this, the Hebrew language was dead for more than two thousand years. How, then, did God preserve His Word? He caused it to be translated into Greek — the Septuagint (LXX).

                  It was the Septuagint that was used by our forefathers in the faith, by the Apostles, and by Christ Himself. In this first of our four-part (really five-part) series on the Septuagint, we cover the history of the Hebrew language and the history of the LXX up until about AD 1000; we trace how the so-called “Masoretic Text” was infiltrated into the Church by those who deny Christ, curse His sheep, and serve another master, and how, tragically, Christians failed to prevent this and permitted the MT to supplant the LXX; and we begin to make our case for a return to the Word of God as He has preserved it and as the Church has always received it — in Greek, as the Septuagint.

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                  Show Notes

                  See Also

                  Further Reading

                  • Letter of Aristeas [Wikipedia]
                  • Although we do not (yet) have an English translation using the LXX that we unreservedly recommend, we recognize that some will want a version for the sake of comparison. This is one option: The Lexham English Septuagint
                    • The Brenton edition can be found in several places online.

                  Parental Warnings

                  None.

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