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

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that, as our present Hebrew text <strong>of</strong> this verse<br />

oonsists <strong>of</strong> three words, so does <strong>the</strong> rendering <strong>of</strong><br />

Onkelos, <strong>and</strong> that both end ^ with <strong>the</strong> same word.<br />

Is <strong>the</strong> rendering <strong>of</strong> Onkelos <strong>the</strong>n a paraphrase, or<br />

does it represent ano<strong>the</strong>r reading f Ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

interesting passage is Deut. viii. 3. Its quotation by<br />

Christ in St. Matt. iv. 4 is deeply interesting, as<br />

read in <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rendering <strong>of</strong> Onkelos, * Not<br />

by bread alone is man suBtainad, but btr eyerr<br />

forthcoming Memra from beiore Jeaorah shall man<br />

live.* Tet ano<strong>the</strong>r rendering <strong>of</strong> Onkelos is<br />

significantly illustrative <strong>of</strong> 1 Ck>r. X. 1- 4. He<br />

renders Deut. zzxiii. 8 *with power He brought<br />

<strong>the</strong>m out <strong>of</strong> Bgypt i <strong>the</strong>y were led under thy cloud;<br />

<strong>the</strong>y journeyed according to (by) thy Memra.' Does<br />

this represent a difference in <strong>the</strong> Hebrew from <strong>the</strong><br />

admittedly difficult text in our present Bible 7<br />

Winer refers to it as an instance in which Onkelos<br />

'suopte ingenio et copiose ad-modum eloquitur<br />

vatum divinorum men-tern,' adding,' ita ut de his,<br />

quas singulis vooibus inesse crediderit,<br />

significationibus non possit reote judicari;' <strong>and</strong><br />

Winer's successors say much <strong>the</strong> same. But this is

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