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To: editor-surveyor
No, Paul was not a “helenized Jew.”

Paul was a Roman citizen whose home culture was people who spoke the common business and social language of the day: Koine Greek. Paul was a Hellenized Jew, and quoted the Septuagint or something like it into the Bible.

Please do not correct me. You don't have enough learning to do it. Nor enough Biblical theology or Biblical expertise, either. So, please don't bother me anymore, or take up my time. I'm old enough to know that every week I have going forward is precious, and unless you are serious about becoming a disciple of the Christ of the Bible, you have no more claim on my time.

Tempus fugit, buddy, and your freeloading on it is done.

816 posted on 04/23/2017 8:11:28 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

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You need constant correction.

Paul was taken from Tarsus as a toddler, by his mother, a devout, non-Helenic Jew, and placed with Gamaliel.

Paul never quoted the LXX, he learned to read from Hebrew scrolls under Gamaliel.

The LXX pollution came when his epistles were translated into Greek by others, years after he wrote them.
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817 posted on 04/23/2017 8:17:18 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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