P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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then being the case, it is conceivable that
the author was citing at this point, deliberately
or otherwise, a translation (possibly his own if he
was in fact citing the Targumic text deliberately)
of the Targum in preference to either the LXX or
MT.7
It is quite possible that the Targumic tradition
of Ps 67:19 was known in the Early Church:
Tertullian cites Eph 4:8 as eleganter filiis hominum
non passim hominibus 8 which is certainly at least
possibly derived from the Targumic >' '. J
the same tradition or version may also lie bepind the
fact that Justin Martyr twice cites Ps 67:19 as
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But the evidence provided by
Tertullian and Justin Martyr is in no i'lay to be regarded
as conclusive:
influenced by Eph 4:8.
both could well have been
Also vie should note that
although filiis hominum is certainly the equivalent
of the Targumic X l'l'J
we have no
other indication that Tertullian was in any ,,'lay
influenced by the Targumic text.
The situation is
no clearer in Justin Martyr because he was in no way
bound to any particular yersion of the OT;
indeed
many of his citations seem to correspond to no known
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version of the OT text.
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