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aka Eschatologuy

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

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

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The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 1

Corey J. Mahler on Tue 02 Sep 2025

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aka Eschatologuy

In this episode and the next, we cover the places where the New Testament cites the Old Testament and there is a difference between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text. In this first (of two) episodes, we cover citations from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts; in the next episode, we will cover Romans through Revelation. By the sheer weight of the evidence, it will become undeniable that the New Testament authors were reading and citing the Septuagint — not some supposed ‘Hebrew’ edition (that, in fact, no longer existed at the time of the composition of the New Testament).

The Septuagint was the Bible of the Apostles; it was the Bible of the early Church; it was the Bible that God miraculously preserved — as He promised He would; and it should be our Bible today.

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Show Notes

Verses

Vorlage over LXX

Matthew 2:15 → Hosea 11:1
Matthew 8:17 → Isaiah 53:4
Matthew 26:31 → Zechariah 13:7 (also Mark 14:27)
Matthew 27:9-10 → Zechariah 11:12-13 (with elements from Jeremiah 19; 32)
Mark 1:2 → Malachi 3:1 (also Luke 7:27)
John 19:37 quoting Zechariah 12:10
Romans 11:35 quoting Job 41:11 (MT 41:3)

LXX over MT

Matthew 1:23 → Isaiah 7:14
Matthew 3:3 → Isaiah 40:3
Matthew 3:17 (Mark, Luke) → (Genesis 22:2, 12, 16)
Matthew 17:5 (Mark, Luke)
Matthew 4:15-16 → Isaiah 9:1-2 (MT versification 8:23-9:1)
Matthew 11:10 → Malachi 3:1 (also Mark 1:2, Luke 7:27)
Matthew 12:18-21 → Isaiah 42:1-4
Matthew 13:14-15 → Isaiah 6:9-10
Matthew 15:8-9 → Isaiah 29:13
Matthew 19:5-6 → Genesis 2:24
Matthew 21:16 → Psalm 8:2 (LXX 8:3)
Matthew 24:29 → Isaiah 13:10, 34:4
Luke 2:23 → Exodus 13:2
Luke 3:4-6 → Isaiah 40:3-5
Luke 4:18-19 → Isaiah 61:1-2 (with Isa 58:6)
John 12:38 → Isaiah 53:1
Acts 2:26 → Psalm 16:9 (LXX 15)
Acts 7:14 → Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5
Acts 7:42-43 → Amos 5:25-27
Acts 8:32-33 → Isaiah 53:7-8
Acts 13:41 → Habakkuk 1:5
Acts 15:16-18 → Amos 9:11-12 (and the closing clause of v. 18)

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The Septuagint — Timelines and Other Alterations

Corey J. Mahler on Tue 12 Aug 2025

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The rabbis made a number of different kinds of edits to their version of what some call ‘Scripture’ (i.e., the Rabbinic or Masoretic Text). In some places, they fiddled with numbers, in some they changed names, and in still others they deleted entire sections of the text. In this final episode of the Old Testament portion of the Septuagint series, we examine the changes the rabbis made to the timelines (particularly the genealogies), the Book of Job, the Book of Esther, and a few other miscellaneous matters.

The next two episodes will round out the LXX series with an examination of how the New Testament uses the Old (to the surprise of none, Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint), and then the final episode in the series will give a roadmap for where we, as the Church, go from here.

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Show Notes

Esther: LXX and MT Compared

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The Septuagint — European History

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 07 May 2025

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aka Eschatologuy

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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aka Eschatologuy

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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The Magdeburg Confession

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 29 Jan 2025

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There is no blanket Christian duty to submit to wrongful authority; in fact, under certain circumstances, the Christian may even have an affirmative duty to resist the tyrant — even the tyrant who may claim to be a Christian himself. The Magdeburg Confession serves as a foundational document (arguably second only to Scripture) on the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate and Christian resistance to tyranny. For the Christian, the question is twofold:

When is it moral to resist the higher authority?
When is it wise to resist the higher authority?

It is incumbent on Christian men to consider these matters, for we have duties to those above us and to those below us (if any) in the social and political hierarchy. The Magdeburgers had to work through these issues while watching an imperial army make ready a siege that would eventually last more than a year and claim thousands of lives (mostly on the imperial side); we would do well to think through these matters now, while we yet enjoy relative peace.

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Show Notes

The Magdeburg Confession [Amazon]
Romans 13

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Justice and Retribution

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 04 Dec 2024

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Retribution is the debt that man owes to justice. Modern society would attempt to mislead you into thinking that rehabilitation or distribution or restoration or mercy are part of justice, but they are not. God is clear in His Word that justice is a matter of punishment of those who do wrong. The prince does not wield the sword in vain, and he will be judged by his faithful or for his faithless execution of his office.

In the coming years, and particularly in the coming year, there will be many who will attempt to conflate the mercy that God has shown us in the right-hand kingdom with the justice that He commands must be done in the left-hand kingdom. Clerics of all stripes will scream and cry that we must show ‘mercy’ and ‘forgiveness’ in the political realm instead of doing what is right and just — these men will be using their collars to spread lies, and God will judge them for their wickedness. Christian men must know how to rightly divide these matters and how to distinguish the voice of God from the lies of Satan — both our souls and our nation depend on this.

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Power and Authority

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 28 Aug 2024

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When things are proceeding as they should, when matters are rightly organized, power and authority are virtually synonymous, and they are at least reposed within the same men. But things in this life do not always proceed as they should. A king may lack the power to exercise his authority or he may abuse his power by exceeding his authority, and the same sort of problems may occur in the Church — a teacher or a cleric who was once faithful may turn from the truth and begin to teach falsely.

Unlike the prince or the magistrate who does possess some authority by virtue of his office, the teacher or the cleric possesses no authority with regard to the things of God simply by virtue of his office; rather, within the Kingdom of the right hand of Christ, authority is a matter of truth — the man who repeats God’s truth after Him wields authority when he does so, but only insofar as he does so. The words of a faithful teacher must be heeded because they are the very words of God, but the words of a false teacher must be rejected and the teacher shunned if he does not repent. It is not the office that commands authority, but the Word of God.

This is a necessary wisdom call that Christian men must make; we must assess whether a teacher or a cleric is holding true to the Word of God. Similarly, we must assess whether a prince or a magistrate has exceeded his authority and become a tyrant. With regard to the kingdom of the left hand of Christ, we may bear with error or even some level of wickedness, but no such thing may be tolerated with regard to the right-hand kingdom, for false teaching is an affront to God and must never be permitted to continue.

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Making Peace

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 24 Jul 2024

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“For unto us a Child is born and unto us a Son is given; dominion shall rest upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called Angel of Great Counsel, for I will bring peace upon the rulers and well-being to Him. Great is His dominion — and there is no end to His peace — upon the Throne of David and over His Kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness, from now unto eternity. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.”

The Lord is a God of peace, and those who follow Him are to be peacemakers, but to be a peacemaker does not mean to be a doormat or to refuse to utilize violence when and where morally warranted. In this life, peace will always be imperfect, for we live in a fallen world wherein suffering is both inevitable and inescapable, but the eschatological peace found in Scripture, in God’s promises is an absolute peace. As Christians, we have the perfect peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, upon which we can rely — whatever may come in this life.

Peace applies to all of the estates and spheres of life, but it does not apply univocally or identically. The peace that is appropriate to the home and that which contributes to that peace is not the same as the peace that applies to politics, and the latter may be sacrificed more readily in pursuit of higher goals. These are matters of wisdom, and the Christian must know how to comport himself in the home, in society, in the State, and in the Church — peace applies to them all, but not equally and not identically.

Where there are higher duties (e.g., in the State, in the Church), then a false peace may be sacrificed in pursuit of those higher duties. In the State, security trumps peace; in the Church, Martin Luther may have put it best: “Peace, if possible; truth, at all costs.”

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The State of the Churches

Corey J. Mahler on Wed 17 Apr 2024

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Woe

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