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The Septuagint — European History

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Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 198 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      The story of how Hebrew was smuggled into the Western Church is long and complicated; it spans centuries and involves hundreds of men. In this episode, we have narrowed down the story to a handful of key figures who played pivotal roles. At many points in this timeline, Christian men could have stood up and defended the inspired Greek of the Septuagint, but essentially none did so. At any point in this timeline, Christian men could have stood up and repudiated the wicked use of the Hebrew, but only two did so — both former (converted) Jews. Satan does not have the limitation of a lifespan of but eighty or so years, and he does not sleep or grow tired; the story of Hebrew is the story of Satan’s long-term plan to undermine and collapse the Western Church, and, with her, Christendom.

      In this second-half of the historical portion of the Septuagint series, we cover the history of the Western Church (from, roughly, Jerome to the Reformation) with regard to how Hebrew came to be used as the basis for the Old Testament. Notably, this history of the Septuagint is almost devoid of any actual use of the Septuagint by the men whose lives and actions make up the narrative, because we, like the Israelites of the Old Testament, left the Word of God sitting in a basement, abandoned and largely forgotten — and, worse, we accepted a corrupted counterfeit from rabbis and made it the basis of our translations. Mercifully and according to His promises, God preserved the Greek for us, and so we can undo the foolishness of centuries past — a topic we will take up in the last episode in this series.

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      At the end of the episode, Luther is quoted and the quote includes the words “whore” and “slut”.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.1

      And I'm still Woe. Today's Stone Choir is episode two of our Septuagint series.

      0:48.0

      Beginning with episode 99, we did a prequel called Context Window, where we discussed kind of the framework that we're using for

      0:55.7

      covering a very expansive subject and the point that I made there that I reiterated in the first

      1:01.7

      episode of the Septuagint series and I'll reiterate here briefly. We're covering so much ground,

      1:06.7

      particularly in this episode, there's no possible way for you to keep it all in your head.

      1:10.9

      And in the last episode, we covered a lot of time, but we focused on a relatively short list of events.

      1:17.7

      As I said in that episode, no, this is revolutionary. None of this is new information.

      1:22.1

      But the way it has been framed in the modern world, back through history is false. So everyone will

      1:29.7

      repeat the same facts, but they'll lie about the context. And that's where the confusion has come

      1:34.5

      today about understanding why the Septuagint matters or doesn't matter. Until a couple of years

      1:39.5

      ago, I didn't, you know, I knew it was just trivia. It was the Greek Old Testament and,

      1:43.8

      okay, whatever. It's, that's a jeopardy trivia. It was the Greek Old Testament and, okay, whatever,

      1:44.5

      it's, that's a jeopardy answer. It wasn't relevant to the church. This episode, we're going to

      1:51.1

      be covering basically the European portion of the history of scripture. So in episode 100,

      1:56.6

      we went through a couple thousand years. It was focused on the Near East. And in the context

      2:02.4

      window episode, I mentioned, if you hear something that you disagree with or you think we're

      2:06.1

      nuts or whatever, beg listeners, if you get mad, write it down, take notes, and then try to set it

      2:11.6

      aside so that we can make the case. This episode, I'll repeat that, but I don't think there's

      2:17.4

      probably going to be very much the people are going to get mad about until we get to the end of this episode, because you're probably not going to recognize most of the names that come up today. Or you'll know a little bit about them, but they won't seem to have anything to do with this up to agent. So while I would encourage you if you do get mad to continue taking notes, you probably won't

      2:35.8

      need your notepad much this time.

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