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To: GodGunsGuts
Indeed, Augustine objected to translating the Old Testament books from the original Hebrew because he believed the Septuagint “enjoys the weightiest authority.”

You didn't read my post. It is a quote from Saint Augustine.

He says he wishes he would have learned Hebrew.

123 posted on 08/13/2008 9:36:29 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Actually you wrote: “Except that Luther couldn’t read Hebrew and admitted as much.”

Followed by the quote below, which looked like it was designed to back up the idea that Luther couldn’t read Hebrew. Are you now saying that the following quote came from Augustine???

“The Hebrew language is the best language of all, with the richest vocabulary... If I were younger I would want to learn this language, because no one can really understand the Scriptures without it. For although the New Testament is written in Greek, it is full of hebraisms and Hebrew expressions. It has therefore been aptly said that the Hebrews drink from the spring, the Greeks from the stream that flows from it, and the Latins from a downstream puddle.”


125 posted on 08/13/2008 9:41:16 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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