What is the Septuagint and why does it matter?
It comes up constantly in footnotes and I've never understood its significance.
It comes up constantly in footnotes and I've never understood its significance.
私は牧師ですが、この問いには「分かりません」と答えることにしています。教義的な答えより先に、まず自分の言葉で読んでみることをおすすめします。
手順としては、まず前後の文脈を確認し、次に並行箇所を比べるのが確実です。この問いには歴史的な経緯があり、四世紀ごろから議論が続いています。
Tracing how the early church handled it locates the modern debate quite usefully. Commentaries genuinely diverge here, so read two or three rather than one.
It may be worth questioning the premise of the question itself.
Knowing the situation of the community it was written for makes this much clearer.
This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it. You are far from alone in this. I had no answer for a very long time.
Honestly, I don't think a clean answer to this exists. This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it. Sometimes changing translation dissolves the question entirely.
This is how my tradition explains it, but it is not the only explanation available. This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it.