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12/15/2011 - 7:32am

Above, I should have made explicit one contrast between Derek's examples and my own:

While Derek's examples (deliberately ?) leave bits out of OT quotations, my examples (deliberately ?) put bits in !

And then there's the question of how this affects our "theology" of the Bible.

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12/13/2011 - 5:03pm

Most of this was new to me and very helpful -- thank you !

It reminds me a little of the development we see in the Book of Revelation's use of the OT.

There are two examples that really inspire me because of the way Revelation makes an OT quote even more universal.

Is 43:19
Behold I am doing a new thing (LXX Greek: idou ego poio kaina)
becomes in Rev 21:5
Behold I am making all things new (NT Greek: idou kaina poio panta)
where the addition of "all things" (panta) really universalizes it.

The other example is Ezek 47:12
... their leaves will be for healing.
becomes in Rev 22:2
the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The surprise, here, being that the nations (and the kings of the earth) who have been enemies of Christ all through the Book of Revelation, have now come in through the ever-open gates of the New Jerusalem (21:24) -- and the leaves are for the healing of the nations !

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