Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here
from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
And today we're gonna look at Hosea chapter 11, verse one
in the so-called Septuagint
and show how it completely ruins this verse.
Also, I'm gonna show you how that when the New Testament
quotes Hosea chapter 11, verse one,
it goes with the way it reads in the original Hebrew
and not in the Septuagint that we have today.
A lot of people will say today,
well, how can you say anything against the Septuagint?
I mean, that's what the apostles
were quoting from in scripture.
Well, I'm gonna prove to you that in this case,
they were not quoting it.
I'm not saying that the apostles didn't have
a Greek New Testament that they used
or that they didn't have a Septuagint.
There are many Septuagints.
But what I'm saying is that what we have today,
the so-called Septuagint of today,
which is based on the manuscripts of Vaticanus,
Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and other corrupt manuscripts,
is not what the apostles had in front of them
when they were writing scripture.
So let's look at this together.
Let's start by looking at the original Hebrew verse
right here, I've written it out on the board here.
It says, kinar Yisrael, when a child Israel,
so when Israel was a child,
va'ohevehu, then I loved him,
the va'ohevehu, oomimitzraim, and from Egypt,
oom means and, mi means from, mitzraim, Egypt.
And these are the two important words to look at here.
Karati li'vni, Karati li'vni.
So he says, when Israel was a child, then I loved him,
and out of Egypt, I called my son.
Okay, now this is a very basic sentence in Hebrew.
Somebody who had even just had like one semester
of Bible college Hebrew could probably understand
these last two words, karate li'vni,
because this word ben, which means son,
is such a basic word, li'vni, to my son.
It's this E ending that makes it my son.
Okay, that first person singular possessive, my son.
Okay, now let's look at what the Septuagint does,
and let's look at what the New Testament does.
Okay, so here it is in the Greek Septuagint.
Otinipios Israel kego yapisafton ke'exegiptu metakalasa
ta tekna'aftu, for Israel is a child, and I loved him,
and out of Egypt, exegiptu,
and this is the key phrase right here,
metakalasa, I called, ta tekna'aftu.
This does not say I called my son.
So the Hebrew scripture, Hosea 11.1 says,
out of Egypt, I called my son.
The Septuagint doesn't say I called my son,
it says I called his children, his children.
Ta tekna' is plural.
So instead of saying my son, it says his children,
and aftu doesn't mean my, it means his.
So instead of saying out of Egypt have I called my son,
it says out of Egypt have I called his children, plural.
So the his is wrong, and the children, plural, is wrong.
And you know what, there's no way in the world
that you could ever get ta tekna'aftu
out of this phrase right here, libni.
Okay, because this is clearly a first person singular,
my son, my singular, son singular, it's not his sons.
Okay, now let's look at the New Testament
quoting this scripture.
Ina plirothi torithen ipotu kiryu viatu profitu legundos
ex egyptu ekalasa tonyonmu.
So ina plirothi, in order that it would be fulfilled,
torithen, the word, or the saying, rather,
ipotu kiryu, of the Lord, it was spoken by the Lord,
the saying of the Lord, what he said,
viatu profitu, through the prophet, legundos, saying,
and here's the key, ex egyptu, notice the Septuagint here,
ex egyptu ekalasa, just like up here, met ekalasa.
Same thing, this met at the beginning
doesn't make any significant difference, it's the same word.
Met ekalasa, ekalasa, tonyonmu.
Instead of taktikna aptu, it says tonyonmu.
This is singular, the son, my, mu is my.
So here we have the Hebrew saying,
out of Egypt have I called my son,
and then here we have the New Testament author
quoting the Hebrew perfectly, tonyonmu, my son,
and then up here we have the Septuagint
totally butchering it and saying taktikna aptu,
which is not even close to being a right translation of this
Now, here's the thing, okay, this is an important scripture
because it's a prophecy about Jesus Christ.
Out of Egypt have I called my son
is going to prophetically apply to Jesus
because it was Jesus who went down into Egypt
and was there until the death of Herod,
and then his family brought him back up from Egypt,
and so that's an important messianic scripture
in Hosea chapter 11, if you're actually reading
the correct Bible, if you've got a Hebrew Old Testament
or a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament,
like a King James Version in front of you,
that's what it's gonna say,
but then we've got the Septuagint totally wrong,
so a couple things to take away from this
is that number one, the Septuagint is wrong
and butchered an important messianic passage,
and number two, Matthew did not have
this so-called Septuagint in front of him
when he's writing the book of Matthew, okay?
Now, I'm not saying that he didn't read
from a Greek Old Testament or a Greek translation
of the Old Testament or even a Septuagint, okay?
Some edition of a Septuagint,
sometimes you'll see Septuaginta plural, okay?
But I will tell you this,
he certainly didn't have this piece of junk in front of him,
and so the so-called Septuagint that we have today,
which is from the fourth century AD and later,
so it's from hundreds of years after the time of Christ,
is not reliable whatsoever,
and it has no authority whatsoever.
The final authority is the Hebrew Masoretic Text
underlying versions like the King James Version
that translate 100% from the Hebrew,
unlike the modern versions like the NIV and the ESV,
which often discard the Hebrew and go with the Septuagint,
the so-called Septuagint, and here's the thing about that.
You know, in this verse,
the modern versions are typically gonna get this right
because this is such an important verse.
They don't wanna freak people out,
but there are lots of other places
where they'll ditch the preserved word of God in Hebrew
and instead go with the corrupt Septuagint.
God bless you, have a great day.