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First, the apostles acknowledge that Hebrew is authoritative over the LXX in respect of the OT. This is easily seen from Paul's quotation of Heb 2:4 in Rom 1:17, where he doesn't take the LXX literally (which adds a gloss to the Hebrew), but reverts back to the original Hebrew meaning. This...

I am pleased to learn that you are reading the commentary on Genies by Delitzsch and that you apparently still have a healthy mind. Delitzsch was, as you have observed for yourself, more critically minded than was Keil. When I wrote that Delitzsch was more accurate, I was not at all referring...

You are apparently quoting from pages 52-53 in the English translation of the 10-volume commentary on the Bible, Biblischer Kommentar über das Alte Testament written in German by Johann Friedrich Karl Keil and Franz Julius Delitzsch and originally published in the years 1866-1877. Keil wrote on...

Keil and Delitzsch on Gen 1:6 "There is nothing in these poetical similes to warrant the idea that the heavens were regarded as a solid mass [or dome], a σιδήρεον, or χάλκεον or πολύχαλκον, such as Greek poets describe. The רקיע (rendered Veste by Luther, after the στερέωα of the lxx and...