Could you run that through the Garble Inhibitor? It looks like you said something really interesting, but I can't tell for sure.
Sorry for not getting back sooner. In a flood of replies, I missed yours.
My garble inhibitor has been acting lately. (Know where I can get a good second-hand spork weasel?) Here goes:
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The problem with this reasoning is that the Septuagint is 90% closer to the New Testament wordings than any reasonable thranslation of the Hebrew into Greek. It's not the Septuagint that is the messy translation, it's the Masoretic text which is!
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The author has falsely presumed that the Septuagint is in error, on the basis that the Septuagint varies so greatly from the Masoretic text. (The Masoretic text is the translation used by the Jews, and which St. Jerome translated into the Vulgate.) The truth is that, in fact, it is the Vulgate and Masoretic text which are problemmatic. This can be demonstrated by comparing the passages wherein the New Testament quotes the Old Testament: 90% of the time, the passages are more similar to Septuagint than to a direct Greek translation of the Masoretic Text.
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Hmm... more verbose... is that degarbled sufficiently?