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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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it was laid down that <strong>the</strong> Chaldee Targum on <strong>the</strong><br />

Pentateuch had<br />

been originally spoken to Moses on Sinai,* though<br />

afterwards for- * ^^ 3ir ]>;<br />

gotten, tin restored <strong>and</strong> re-introduced.'* tMcg.s*<br />

Whe<strong>the</strong>r or not <strong>the</strong> LXX. was read in <strong>the</strong> Hellenist<br />

Synagogues, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> worship conducted, wholly or<br />

partly, in Greek, must be matter <strong>of</strong> conjecture. We<br />

find, however, a significant notice* to <strong>the</strong> •<br />

jer.Mcg. dSdCt that among those who spoke a<br />

barbarous language (not Hebrew Kxot. p. 7ij ^<strong>the</strong><br />

term referring specially to Greek), it was <strong>the</strong><br />

custom for one person to read <strong>the</strong> whole Pa/raslidh<br />

(or lesson for <strong>the</strong> day), while among <strong>the</strong> Hebrewspeaking<br />

Jews this was done by seven persons,<br />

soccessively called up. This seems to imply that<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> Greek text alone was read, or that it<br />

followed a Hebrew reading, like <strong>the</strong> Tar-gom <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Easterns. More probably, however, <strong>the</strong> former<br />

would be tbe case, since both Hebrew

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