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Just Psalms? How about Ephesians and Colossians?
From time to time, people ask me about why Christians might sing only Psalms in the worship of God. One of the more understandable arguments they sometimes present is an appeal to one or both of these verses: Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in…
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The Modern Roman Canon and the Book of Esdras A
The following was originally written by Sir Henry H. Howorth, as “The Modern Roman Canon and the Book of Esdras A,” The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume VII, pp. 343-54 (Oxford: 1906). I’m simply republishing this as a scholarly discussion of the issue of Septuagint Esdras 1 or “Esdras A” (Ἔσδρας Α) and the North…
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Jerome Regarding the Septuagint
I recently happened to stumble across this interesting translation of Jerome’s Prologue to Chronicles (link). Jerome makes a number of interesting comments about the Septuagint: 1) Jerome begins by noting that the Septuagint is not a pure translation: If the version of the Seventy translators is pure and has remained as it was rendered by…