There are times when the Septuagint is immediately seen to be right, and valuable as a correction of the received text. Consider ... in Isaiah: “Where is the house that ye build unto me: and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 66:1-2). That last rather meaningless phrase reads thus in the LXX: “and all these things are mine.” This reading is so obviously sensible in its meaning, and so necessary to complete the parallelism, that few will be disposed to question it.
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Author: Harry A. Whittaker
Keywords: Septuagint
Bible reference(s): Isa. 66:1-2
Source: “Bible Studies,” 10.16.
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