Stranger said:
I deny when you can offer nothing to prove the existance of a Septuagint. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
By the way, even your LXX is a lie. Check your made up story. wikipedia? Please.
Stranger
Let's check out which really is the lie - the existence of the LXX or no LXX.
I'm aware of websites that promote conspiracy theories such as, 'Septuagint Fraud: LXX Hoax EXPOSED'.
However, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia's well researched article on the 'Septuagint' refutes your view of denial of the existence of the LXX. I support the scholarship of this article rather than your emotional response of the denial of the existence of the LXX: 'There is no proof that the Septuagint was translated 200 years before Christ. There is no proof that there was a Septuagint'.
How do we know the Greek translation of the OT (the LXX) existed? Here's some evidence from early church historian, Eusebius of Caesarea (lifespan ca. AD 260-340):
It is our present task, therefore, to collect these same expressions from the prophetic writings
of the Hebrews, so that by their agreement in each separate part the demonstration of the truth
may be established. And we must recognize that the sacred oracles include in the Hebrew
much that is obscure both in expression and in meaning, and are capable of various
interpretations in Greek because of their difficulty. The Seventy Hebrews in concert have
translated them together, and I shall pay the greatest attention to them, because it is the
custom of the Christian Church to use their work. But wherever necessary, I shall call in the
help of the editions of the later translators, which the Jews are accustomed to use to day,
so that my proof may have stronger support from all sources. With this introduction, it now
remains for me to treat of the inspired words (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Bk 5,
Preface, 'The Proof of the Gospel').
Therefore, the translation of the OT by the Seventy Hebrews into Greek [known as the Septuagint] was 'the custom of the Christian Church to use their work' in the fourth century, when Eusebius wrote his history.
An earlier church father, Irenaeus, who lived in the late second century (died ca AD 202)
refuted your view of the non-existence of the LXX:
For before the Romans possessed their kingdom, while as yet the Macedonians held Asia, Ptolemy the son of Lagus, being anxious to adorn the library which he had founded in Alexandria, with a collection of the writings of all men, which were of merit, made request to the people of Jerusalem, that they should have their Scriptures translated into the Greek language. And they—for at that time they were still subject to the Macedonians—sent to Ptolemy seventy of their elders, who were thoroughly skilled in the Scriptures and in both the languages, to carry out what he had desired. But he, wishing to test them individually, and fearing lest they might perchance, by taking counsel together, conceal the truth in the Scriptures, by their interpretation, separated them from each other, and commanded them all to write the same translation. He did this with respect to all the books. But when they came together in the same place before Ptolemy, and each of them compared his own interpretation with that of every other, God was indeed glorified, and the Scriptures were acknowledged as truly divine. For all of them read out the common translation in the very same words and the very same names, from beginning to end, so that even the Gentiles present perceived that the Scriptures had been interpreted by the inspiration of God. And there was nothing astonishing in God having done this—He who, when, during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, the Scriptures had been corrupted, and when, after seventy years, the Jews had returned to their own land, then, in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, inspired Esdras the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to recast all the words of the former prophets, and to re-establish with the people the Mosaic legislation (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.21.2).
So there you have it that, to 'adorn the library' of Alexandria, there was 'made request to the people of Jerusalem,
that they should have their Scriptures translated into the Greek language.... sent to Ptolemy seventy of their elders,
who were thoroughly skilled in the Scriptures and in both the languages, to carry out what he had desired....
commanded them all to write the same translation. He did this with respect to all the books. But when they came
together in the same place before Ptolemy, and each of them compared his own interpretation with that of every
other, God was indeed glorified, and the Scriptures were acknowledged as truly divine'.
Those who were closest to the inauguration of the early church knew of the existence of the LXX, translated
in Alexandria by 70 scholars who knew Hebrew and Greek. and how it came into existence. Now you and some
conspiracy theorists want us to believe it never existed.
I suggest that you do some serious research, instead of feeding us the details of your conspiracy theory about the LXX
Oz
P.S. I've tried to correct font 3 times to make it consistent but it won't work.