I.  The Septuagint


  
   AThe "origin is involved in much obscurity. (From Easton's Bible Dictionary)                     

           It derives its name from the popular notion that seventy-two translators were employed on it by the
           direction of Ptolemy Philadelphus,
[1] king of Egypt, (280 BC)? and that it was accomplished in seventy-two
           days, for the use of the Jews residing in that country. There is no historical warrant for this notion.
(From
              Easton's Bible Dictionary)
   

           1.  The "Septuagint" was translated during the
"silent years"(270-50 BC?)400 years?


                a.  Silent meaning: No prophetic voice from God since Malachi
(NOTE: Acts.1:16; 3:18-24, Matt.24:15,
                       1Peter.1:10-12)
God was not inspiring anyone to write down any scripture. (2Tim.3:16-17, 2Peter,1:21)
                     God had already inspired His Word (the
Mosaic Hebrew Text) that would carry Israel until John the       
                     Baptist
(Matt.11:13) with the WARNING do not add or diminish from it. (Deut., Prov.30:5, 1Peter.1:20-21
                       Rev.22:)

































                     However (during this time of these silent years) the Jews
"of the dispersion in Egypt"[2] (under the
                     reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus)
[1]  placed a high estimate[0] upon theAprocyphal Books  and included
                     them in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, but they were rejected
                     from the Hebrew canon
[3] by the Jews of Palestine"[o]
                    
  

                     (1)  These Books of the Apocrypha were written during these silent years
                           (a)  I & 11 Esdras
                           (b)  Tobit
                           (c)  Judith
                           (d)  Additions to Esther (in the canon of scripture)
                           (e)  The wisdom of Solomon
                            (f)  Ecclesiasticus
                           (g)  Baruch
                           (h)  The Epistle of Jeremiah
                            (i)  The Song of the Three Holy Children
                            (j)  The History of Susanna
                           (k)  Bel and the Dragon
                           (L)  The Prayer of Manasses
                           (m)  I & II Maccabees


                     (2)  During the
"silent years" The Septuagint
(280 BC?) was translated from Hebrew to Greek and
                            
included the books of the Apocrypha) Note: Deut.12:32, Prov.30:5
        


































            


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                            (a)  Oral Torah(600-200 BC?)
                            (b) 
Talmud

                            (c)  Mishnah
                            (d) 
Mishrash
                            (e) 
Gemara

                       (4)  Also during this "uninspired time"
                            (a)  The
Pharisees begin
                            (b)  The 
Sadducees begin
                            (c)  The 
Synagogues begin
                            (d)  The 
Sadhedrim begin
                     (5)  Daniel prophecied about this uninspired WAITING PERIOD. (NO PROPHETIC VOICE for 434 years
                            for Messiah to come.
(Dan.9:26, John.1:44-45; 4:24)
                            (a)  There would be a kingdom of brass (Greece lead by Alexandria the Great / Antiochus
                                   Epiphanies
) which did bear rule over the all the earth
(Dan.2:1-39;8:1-12-13; 11:1-31)
                            (b)  W
hile the House of Judah (The Jews / the children of the flesh of Abraham /
Daniel's people
                                       WAITED for the Messiah (Dan.9:25-26).
                            (c)  The Jews daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of God's Sanctuary was cast down
                                   by Antiochus Epiphanies (vile person) who comes against with indignation against their holy
                                   covenant was cast down
                 
   (6)
  Then these "silent years" (waiting for Messiah) which would be broken by John the baptist.
                              (Isa.40:3, Matt.3:1-4)


    B.  Who were these 72 translators?

           "According to Legend there were six translator's selected from 6 each of the 12 tribes of Israel, who   
           worked in separate cells, translating the whole, and in the end all  their versions were
identical."  
            (Encyclopedia Britannica) 
["identical" sounds positive?]

           1. However, only the tribe of Levi could copy the Word of God
(Deut.17:18; 24:8; 31:9-11; 24-25,
                 2Chron.15:3; 24:15, Neb.8:2, Mal.2:7, 1Peter.2:5-9, 2Tim.2:15; 4:2, Rev.6; 5:10)

           2.  The conditions of the time
[0]
                a.  They were in a spiritual dark time / no prophetic voice / God was silent / Malachi was the last
                     Prophet to speak to God's people.
                b.  The Jews wanted their Bible in Greek

                c.  It was the work of a number of translators who differed greatly both in their knowledge of Hebrew
                     and of Greek; and that from the earliest times it has borne the name of "The Septuagint", i.e., The
                     Seventy.
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)

           
                     Note:  It is ONLY A TRANSLATION of the
Hebrew text (It does not over ride the authority
                     of the Hebrew Text (i.e. our Old Testament in our Bibles)


                d.  The "Septuagint" was translated in Alexandria; that it was begun about 280 B.C., and finished about 
                       200
or 150 B.C.; This was during that uninspired era between the Old and New Testaments.
                e.  From the earliest times it has borne the name of "The Septuagint", i.e., The Seventy.
                 
    (From Easton's Bible Dictionary)
                f.   Peter declared that the scriptures were written "not by the will of man" (i.e. not by the will of the Jews
                     "of the dispersion in Egypt"
[2] (under the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus)[1],  but by "holy men of God...
​                     as they were moved (inspired) by the Holy Ghost." (2Peter.1:20-21)     


  
  CDid Jesus and the apostles quote from the Septuagint? 
 

           Common sense would tell you. Why would He? Why would He ignore the very Word (Logos, the Hebrew
           text) that He inspired and quote the Septuagint as the authority? (2Tim.3:16) When Jesus said "search the
           scriptures, was He meaning the Septuagint (a translation of the Hebrew text) or the Mosaic text? (The
           Word that He inspired!)
The Septuagint is ONLY a translation of the God-breathed / inspired Hebrew Old
           Testament text. Our modern Bibles today are translations of the Greek New Testament that is the inspired,
           God-breathed Words. (Read: King James Defended by E. F. Hills Page.000)


           The translations do not correct or alter the inspired  Greek or Hebrew, they only place them into the
           English of our time. You never change(Deut.12:32, Prov.30:5, Rev.22:18) what the New Testament and  
           Old Testament writers wrote under the infallible inspiration of God. (2Tim.3:16-17, 2Peter.1:20-21)
          These are "God-breathed Words
!" 


   
D.  What then was the Bible of the 1st.Century Church?        

           There were the  Old Testament Hebrew scriptures, and the Septuagint. There was no New Testament
           was being written yet to "canonized"


           The Language was Greek / The language of Jesus and his disciples is believed to be Aramaic.
[1][2] This is the  
           common language of Judea in the first century AD, most likely a Galilean dialect distinguishable from that of
           Jerusalem.
[3] This is generally agreed upon by historians. The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee,
           where Jesus spent most of his time, were Aramaic-speaking communities.
[4] It is also likely that Jesus knew
           enough Koine Greek to converse with those not native to Judea, and it is reasonable to assume that Jesus  
           was well versed in Hebrew for religious purposes.
[5][6][7]

           


    E.  NOTE: The Pattern that the Spirit of God gave for copying God’s Word                                

           This pattern has never changed and will never be denied by those who are lead by the inspiration of the
           Holy Ghost. 
(Rom.15:4, 1Cor.10:11, 2Tim.2:13, Matt.5:17-19) Simply because the Holy Spirit inspired the
           patterns in the first place!               


           1. The pattern was given to the tribe of Levi (First the natural 1Cor.15:45-46)                      
                Moses wrote this law, "and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the
                covenant  of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, saying, At the
                end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, When all
                Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this
                law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy
                stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God,
                and observe to do all the words of this law:"
(Deut 31:9-12; 17:18; 24:8; 31:9-11, 2Chron.15:3; 34:15,
                 Neh.8:1-12, Mal.2:7, Rom.15:4, 1Cor.10:1-11, Heb.9:1-;10:1-25)             


         
2. The pattern continues into the New Testament (THEN the spiritual1Cor.15:45-46)                      
                Today
the Church (the born again believer, Water Baptized, Holy Spirit Baptized) is the "holy priesthood,
                to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ...a royal priesthood, an holy nation."
               
(1 Peter 2:5-9, Rev.1:6; 5:10)          
                       
                a. Christ our High Priest (The Word made flesh
John.1:1-14)                          
                    Wherefore, "holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of                     our profession, Christ Jesus."
(Heb.2:17; 3:1; 4:14-17; 5:1-5; 6:20; 7:1-28; 8:1-5; 9:1-; 10:1-25)                   

                b. We
(The Church) are the Priesthood(Responsible for the Word of God (Deut.31:9-12)                            
                     But "ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
                     should  shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light."            
          (1Peter.2:5-9, Exod.19:1-6)) with the same responsibilities (Deut 31:9-12; 17:18; 24:8; 31:9-11, 2Chron.15:3;
                      34:15, Mal.2:7)
with the Word of God. 

                c. No strangers (unbeliever's)                      
                     The stranger (the unbeliever / unsaved -
Eph.2:1-22) that cometh nigh shall be put to death."                     
                  
   (Num 1:51-52) No stranger to translate, copy God's Word (Deut. 31:9-12; 17:18; 24:8; 31:9-11, 
                      2Chron.15:3; 34:15, Mal.2:7)
NO OTHER TRIBE THAN LEVI!  The charge was to the "Priests the sons of
                     Levi"
(Deut.31:9) to handle God's Word. Peter says that The Church is the fulfillment of the Priesthood
                  
   (1Peter.2:5-9) with the SAME charge. This responsibility is "not by the will of man (not by any other
                     tribe than Levi (The Priests) but by "holy men of God... as they were moved (inspired) by the Holy
                     Ghost."
(2Peter.1:20-21, 2Tim.3:16-17)                   


                d. God's patterns cannot be violated (because they are patterns of the Heavenly
Heb.9:1-28)
                     (1)  The covering of "coats of skin" (not fig leaf aprons" (Gen.3:1-24)
                     (2)  Cains offering was rejected (It was out of order
(Gen.4:1-4, 1John.3:, Jude.1:11-13)
                     (3)   The Tabernacle (Everything had it's place BEFORE God's Glory filled the Most Holy
(Exod.40:1-38)
                     (4)  Aaron's two sons were consumed by fire because they violated God's pattern
(Lev.10:1-2)
                     (5)  If Priests did not wash at the Laver "that they die not"
(Exod.30:17-21)
                     (6)  Moses struck the rock - rejected
(Num.20:7-13, 1Cor.10:1-)
                     (7)  Man picking up sticks on the Sabbath - death
(Num.15:32-36)
                     (8)   Uzzah stuck down for touching the Ark / not of the family of Korah
(1Chron.13:9-14, )
                     (9)  Genealogy
(Neh.7:63-65)


II. What then was the Bible of the 1st.Century Church?        
     There were the  Old Testament Hebrew scriptures, and there was the Septuagint (a translation of the
     Hebrew into Greek.) However, there was no New Testament because it had not been written yet. Today
      we have these letters (Manuscripts Mss), Jews had the "Torah"(The Penetateuch) and their added
Oral Torah
      (600-200 BC?)
Talmud, Mishnah, Mishrash, Gemara.  

  
   A.  The New Testament began as letters (epistles) to the Churches                    
           There were only manuscripts (hand written letters written by Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John)
           to the Churches. Many of them were not written until 55 - 70 A.D? Revelation was the last one.
(90 A.D?)
           God was in the process of establishing His New Testament canon
[0] There was no committee, no editorial
           board, no gathering of all the Theologians, or Scholars that would decide what would be the New Testament.
           It would be the Providence (divine guidance guiding human destiny) and Sovereignty (supreme, unlimited
           absolute independent) power of God through the "Priesthood" of the believer.
(Deut 31:9-12; 17:18; 24:8;
            31:9-11, 2Chron.15:3; 34:15, Mal.2:7)          


           1. Faithful and trustworthy scribes                               
               Many trustworthy copies of the original New Testament Manuscripts were produced by faithful scribes.                (Hand written because there was no printing press until1450 A.D.)
        
          2.  By true believers                                 
               These copies / manuscripts (made by these faithful and trustworthy scribes) were read and recopied
               by the  true believers down through the centuries. This is where the manuscripts came from. The
               Priesthood, the people who have been given charge of God's Word. Note: "The untrustworthy...
               (copies)...were not so generally read or so frequently recopied...and consigned to oblivion."

          3.  This was the providence of God! 
(Jer.1:12)                      
                Today the same will eventually happen with all the modern translations that have given preeminence
                to the corrupt Greek Text of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.
(Review: PHASE 1) God will Sovereignly and
               Providentially preserve His Word and Sinaiticus and Vaticanus will fall by the way side.     

    B.  They had the traditional Hebrew text (Moses)                     
           This was the infallible Word of God which Jesus confirmed when He "came unto His own"
(John.1:11,
            Gal.3:16, Rom.15:8)
The New Testament had not been written yet.               

           1. The Torah and the traditional (Moses) Hebrew text                                
               The "term Torah is also used to designate the entire Hebrew Bible. Since for some Jews the laws and                customs passed down through oral traditions are part and parcel of God's revelation to Moses and
               constitute the “
oral Torah."  The Torah is also understood to include both the Oral Law and the written
               Law. Rabbinic commentaries on and interpretations of both Oral and written Law have been viewed by
               some as extensions of sacred oral tradition, thus broadening still further the meaning of Torah to
               designate the entire body of Jewish laws, customs, and ceremonies. (Encyclopedia Britannica)             

           2. The oral law is inspired by man                                
               It has been added into the Hebrew text by man. Jesus saidthey have "made the commandment of God                of none effect by your tradition."
(Matt 15:6-7, Col.2:8)      

           3. The Church world is doing the same thing today          
               There are many "Oral Laws" in our Church structure today of "philosophy and vain deceit, after the
               tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
(Col 2:8) Note: The inspired
               Word of God (the traditional (Masoretic) Hebrew text is designed to bring us to Christ. Man's oral laws,
               philosophies and traditions are "not after Christ."
(Col.2:7-8, Matt.15:6-7) Don't mix the Oral Torah into
               your end-time doctrine.

    C.  The Septuagint was not the official Bible of the 1st.Century Church      
           The "Apostles did not quote from the Septuagint invariably and thus encourage the notion that the Greek      
           translation was equal to the Hebrew Old Testament in authority. Instead, they walked  the middle way
           between these two extremes. Sometimes they cited the Septuagint verbatim, even when it departed from
           the Hebrew in non-essential ways, and sometimes they made their own translation directly from the
           Hebrew or used their  knowledge of Hebrew to improve the rendering of the Septuagint"
[2]    
           1.  Remember the apostles were writing  by the "inspiration of God"
(2Tim.3:16) which makes their
                writing infallible when they "made their own translation directly from the Hebrew."
[2]     
           2.  Rememberthe Septuagint is only a translation and is not equal to the Hebrew Old Testament in
                authority. The writing of  the apostles is the infallible Word of God.                         


III. Origen, Jerome and the Septuagint           
       In the 3rd century AD  Origen (BC.185–BC.254), Christian scholar(?) and theologian, probably born in
       Alexandria, Egypt. His most well-known work was the
Hexapla, an edition of the Old Testament with six
       or moreparallel versions
)  attempted to clear up translation errors that had crept into the text of the
       Septuagint by copyists'. These varied widely from copy to copy. Other scholars also consulted the Hebrew
       text in order to make the  Septuagint text more accurate. But it was the Septuagint, not the original Hebrew,
       that was the main basis for the Old Latin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic, and part of the Arabic
       translations of the Old Testament. It has never ceased to be the standard version of the Old Testament in the
       Greek church, and from it (the Septuagint)  Jerome began his translation of the Vulgate Old Testament.  
   
    (Encyclopedia Britannica)       

      A.  Septuagint, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Apocrypha                       
   

              1.  The "Septuagint"                                
                   The "text of the Septuagint is contained in a few early, but not necessarily
                   reliable, manuscripts." 
(Encyclopedia Britannica)           
        
              2.  Sinaiticus / Vaticanus                                  
                   The best known of these are the Codex Vaticanus (B) and the Codex Sinaiticus (S), both dating from
                   the 4th century AD, and the Codex Alexandrinus (A) from the 5th century. There are also numerous 
                   earlier papyrus fragments and many later manuscripts.The first printed copy of the Septuagint was in
                   the  Complutensian Polyglot (1514–22).
(Encyclopedia Britannica)            

    
  B.   Who was Origen? (202-325 AD.)                        
        

             1.  Origen                                    
                  He was the "most important theologian and biblical scholar of the early Greek church."                         
             2.  Origen and Clement.                                   
                  These were "two of the most  prominent fathers...chief representatives of the School of Alexandria,
                  the great melting pot of Greek philosophy and Judaism."

             3.  Origen - a preacher                                   
                  Because of his reputation, Origen was much in demand as a preacher.                  
             4.  Origen was a early (foremost) Christian Theologian                                       
                  A celebrated Christian writer teacher and Theologian of antiquity.[8]  Yet Origen was a "Tare"
                  amongst the wheat.             
             5.  Origen was a "Platonist"                                   
                  He believed that Jesus was "subordinate to the father in power and dignity." [9]  He taught that Jesus                   was created, not eternal.[10] Origen believed that if Satan fell by will, even he can repent.                           
                  (
Encyclopedia Britannica, "Origen")                                       

                  Note: Origen's denial of the Deity, disqualifies him as the Priests before the Lord because he                      
                  would "pollute" the "Holy Word of God."
(Neh.7:63-65)  Therefore, how could God be inspiring                    
                  Origen when he is in violation of His pattern?
(2Tim.2:13)    
            

             6.  Influenced by a semi-Gnostic writing                                  
                  Origen believed that Hell cannot be an absolute since God cannot abandon any creature.                     
             7.  After his death, Opposition steadily mounted, respectful in the Greek Christian Methodius of
                  Olympus' criticism of his spiritualizing doctrine of the Resurrection                   
             8.  A wealthy Christian named Ambrose, whom Origen converted from the teachings of the heretical
                  Valentinus and to whom he (Origen) dedicated many of his works, provided him with shorthand 
                  writers. 
             9.  This resulted in a "stream of treatises and commentaries that began to pour from Origen's
                  pen."[11] and altered manuscripts in accordance with his belief's.                        

                  Note: This was easily done because there was no printing press yet. There was no mass produced
                  Bibles. The copying was up to the honesty of the scribe!

                  Conclusion: The Septuagint should not be held up as an "equal" to the traditional (Masoretic)
                  Hebrew Text of the Old Testament. Think on this principle. "And have no fellowship with the
                  unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
(Eph 5:11-12) "Be ye not unequally yoked
                  together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
                  communion hath light with darkness?"
(2 Cor 6:14-15)

                History has revealed the "Septuagint"
to be placed together with Origen, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus,
                  Jerome and the Apocrypha, making it to be in fellowship with darkness. These are the corrupt
                  manuscripts were reject by Erasmus and they are responsible (the foundation) for all the doubtful
                  footnotes concerning Christ's Deity and His bodily Resurrection in our modern translations today.
                 
(Review: PHASE.1)
 




Notes ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________          

1.  
(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)


2.   The King James Version Defended. Edward F. Hill. ( A Christian View of the Biblical Text." Chapter Four, page.94 )


3.   The King James Version Defended. Edward F. Hill. ( A Christian View of the Biblical Text." Chapter Four, page.106


4.   A tradition that translators were sent to Alexandria by Eleazar, the chief priest at Jerusalem, at the request of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285– 246 BC), a patron of literature, first appeared in the  Letter of Aristeas, an unreliable source. (Encyclopedia Britannica) 


5.   Strong's OT:2114 - a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery:KJV - (come from) another (man, place),          fanner, go away (e-) strange (-r, thing, woman).  


6.   NT:3581 - apparently a primary word; foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer: KJV -        host, strange (-r).(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's         Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible       Translators, Inc.)


7.   8, 9, 10. Funk & Wagnalla, Vol.19. p,441


11. Encyclopedia Britannica, (Origen) 12. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol.1, pp.434-435 13. Talmud Torah - "After continued persecution more of the oral law was committed to writing. A great many more lessons, lectures and        traditions only alluded to in the few hundred pages of Mishnah, became thousands of pages now called the Gemara is Aramaic, having been        complied in Babylon. The Mishnah and Gemara together are called the TALMUD The Rabbis in Israel also collected their traditions and        compiled them into the Jerusalem Talmud." (Wikipedia - Torah / Talmud Torah)

























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All these are man's replacement for the gap (WAITING PERIOD / SILENT YEARS) for no anointing. Look at the condition of the House of Judah going into these silent years.(2Chron.5:1-14;Neh.13:1-, Mal.1-)

These books "fell to the ground"
unlike the Prophet Samuel's words. (1Sam.3:19) By the test a time they were rejected from the canon ofscripture. Yet the Catholic Church picked them up (so-to-speak) and included in their Bible declaring them to be inspired of God
. Ignoring God's Word (Deut.12:32, Prov.30:5, Rev.22:18) Don't add or diminish

Septuagint

Remember this is HISTORY TO US

(Rom.5:10-12)

From these writings comes the Jewish traditions / commandments of Men that JESUS (MESSIAH / God manifest in the flesh Matt.1:18-25, John.1:1-14) said, "make the commandment of God of none effect" (Matt.15:1-9)

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JOHN

Septuagint

         (3)  Also during this time of NO inspiration

Think about Adam and Eve made "fig leaf aprons" tio cover themselves
A silent time for Abraham and Sarah. Tried to fill in the gap. Saul "forced himself to offer sacrifice
 Hosea- God would not smeel their sacrifices   because of sin / corruption

LAW 
(Mosaic Text)

Law and the Prophets were unto John (the baptist)

(Rom.5:10-14)

NOTE: How the Books of the Apocrypha were included with their desire to have the Bible in there own Language of the day


The SAME problem today concerning our New Testament