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To: GonzoII

I pick out a couple of his “references” at random and there’s no connection whatsoever. Who is this guy?


3 posted on 05/01/2011 5:08:01 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
"I pick out a couple of his “references” at random and there’s no connection whatsoever. Who is this guy?"

I took the first reference and found the connection: Matthew 4:4 Wisdom 16:26 but others may not be so obvious as the the author states:

"Hebrews 11:35 is an indisputable reference to 2 Maccabees 7, but many are not so clear as there may be only a single phrase that echoes one in a deuterocanonical book (and this may not be obvious in the translation, but only the original languages).

This is the same with New Testament references to the protocanonical books of the Old Testament. How many New Testament references there are to the Old Testament depends in large measure on what you are going to count as a reference.

As a result, many scholarly works simply give an enormous catalogue of all proposed references and leave it to the individual interpreter to decide whether a given reference is actual or not.

4 posted on 05/01/2011 5:27:01 AM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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