My thanks to Jeff for his gracious
response to my essay on the Septuagint.
I am not so much interested
in the Orthodox-Roman Catholic polemics in this discussion but rather on which
version of the Scriptures – Vulgate or Septuagint – gives the most accurate
rendering.
We will give a couple of
examples.
The first seems to be a small
thing:
‘In Acts 7:14 St. Stephen
relates the story of the Israelite nation and refers to 75 people who
traveled from Canaan to Egypt in the emigration of Jacob's family. This is not
what Genesis 46 states in our [Hebrew/Masoretic-based] Bibles, where it
catalogues 70 sojourners [Gen. 46:27]. But the LXX [Septuagint] lists 75
people, confirming St. Stephen's account, with the differences accounted for by
the grand- and great-grandchildren of Joseph (Gen 46:20-22)’ (Joel Kalvesmaki).
The Vulgate retains the error
mentioned, stating 70 in Genesis 46 and 75 in Acts 7 (verse look-up in the
Douay-Rheims Bible available here),
omitting some of Joseph’s descendants in Gen. 46:20.
The second involves a
weightier subject, an OT prophecy of Christ:
. . .
The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/10/garlington-septuagint-vulgate-redux/.
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Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
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