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The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 1

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Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      In this episode and the next, we cover the places where the New Testament cites the Old Testament and there is a difference between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text. In this first (of two) episodes, we cover citations from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts; in the next episode, we will cover Romans through Revelation. By the sheer weight of the evidence, it will become undeniable that the New Testament authors were reading and citing the Septuagint — not some supposed ‘Hebrew’ edition (that, in fact, no longer existed at the time of the composition of the New Testament).

      The Septuagint was the Bible of the Apostles; it was the Bible of the early Church; it was the Bible that God miraculously preserved — as He promised He would; and it should be our Bible today.

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      Show Notes

      • Verses

      Vorlage over LXX

      1. Matthew 2:15 → Hosea 11:1
      2. Matthew 8:17 → Isaiah 53:4
      3. Matthew 26:31 → Zechariah 13:7 (also Mark 14:27)
      4. Matthew 27:9-10 → Zechariah 11:12-13 (with elements from Jeremiah 19; 32)
      5. Mark 1:2 → Malachi 3:1 (also Luke 7:27)
      6. John 19:37 quoting Zechariah 12:10
      7. Romans 11:35 quoting Job 41:11 (MT 41:3)

      LXX over MT

      1. Matthew 1:23 → Isaiah 7:14
      2. Matthew 3:3 → Isaiah 40:3
      3. Matthew 3:17 (Mark, Luke) → (Genesis 22:2, 12, 16)
      4. Matthew 17:5 (Mark, Luke)
      5. Matthew 4:15-16 → Isaiah 9:1-2 (MT versification 8:23-9:1)
      6. Matthew 11:10 → Malachi 3:1 (also Mark 1:2, Luke 7:27)
      7. Matthew 12:18-21 → Isaiah 42:1-4
      8. Matthew 13:14-15 → Isaiah 6:9-10
      9. Matthew 15:8-9 → Isaiah 29:13
      10. Matthew 19:5-6 → Genesis 2:24
      11. Matthew 21:16 → Psalm 8:2 (LXX 8:3)
      12. Matthew 24:29 → Isaiah 13:10, 34:4
      13. Luke 2:23 → Exodus 13:2
      14. Luke 3:4-6 → Isaiah 40:3-5
      15. Luke 4:18-19 → Isaiah 61:1-2 (with Isa 58:6)
      16. John 12:38 → Isaiah 53:1
      17. Acts 2:26 → Psalm 16:9 (LXX 15)
      18. Acts 7:14 → Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5
      19. Acts 7:42-43 → Amos 5:25-27
      20. Acts 8:32-33 → Isaiah 53:7-8
      21. Acts 13:41 → Habakkuk 1:5
      22. Acts 15:16-18 → Amos 9:11-12 (and the closing clause of v. 18)

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      0:00.0

      I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, Whoa.

      0:44.7

      On today's Stone Choir, we are beginning the conclusion of our Septuagint series with our closing argument, which is the entirety of the New Testament.

      0:55.0

      I'm going to give you another brief recap as we've been doing in the previous episodes just to help you keep your bearings.

      1:01.0

      Episode 99 was a context window where we talked about this is just going to be a huge, long story.

      1:07.0

      Not really convoluted, but it could seem that way if you don't have it all sort of laid out.

      1:11.4

      So making the case, it's okay if you don't have this all in your head at one time.

      1:16.9

      Episode 100, the first episode of the Septuagint series proper was on the Near Eastern history

      1:22.2

      where we talked about what God's people had before the Septuagint, how the Septuagint came about, how Jesus'

      1:30.3

      ancestors used the Septuagint exclusively by his day, how the early church used the

      1:36.3

      Septuagint exclusively for the first 400 years, and then how for over a thousand years

      1:42.3

      after really the time of Augustine and Jerome, the church fell

      1:47.7

      away from Greek, first of all, in the West, and as a result, Jerome's unilateral decision

      1:54.5

      to use Hebrew meant that the underlying Greek text was entirely lost, such that by the time

      2:00.7

      we get to the Reformation,

      2:02.1

      which was where we wrapped up the second historical episode, no one cared about any of this.

      2:08.9

      And so we pointed out in the European history episode, the only time the Septuagia came up was when we talked about it.

      2:16.3

      And the reason when we began there was that if we had begun here, if we had begun with our closing argument, which is all you need,

      2:23.8

      once we get done with this episode and the next episode, there can be absolutely no doubt that Jesus and the apostles exclusively used the Septuagint as their scripture.

      2:33.8

      And so why aren't we doing the same?

      2:36.3

      It's very simple.

      2:37.7

      But if we had begun here, it would have been incredibly disorienting and upsetting for people

      2:42.4

      because then it would raise a question, well, how do we get here?

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