Synonyms of the Old Testament

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“The soul is, properly speaking, the animating principle of the body, and is the common property of man and beast.” (Page 56)

“This early Greek translation is, indeed, of the greatest value to the Biblical student, partly because it contains certain readings of importance which are not to be found in the existing Hebrew Bibles; partly also, because its renderings, though often free and paraphrastic, and sometimes even illiterate and unintelligible, frequently represent the traditional sense attached to the sacred text among the Alexandrian Jews. But, after all, the main value of the LXX lies in this, that it represents in a great measure the Greek religious language of many of the Jews of our Lord’s time, and by its pages the Greek of the N.T. may be illustrated at every turn.” (Page 9)

“Our Lord, by referring to this Psalm, evidently meant His hearers to understand that if earthly judges were called ‘gods’ in Scripture because they were to regulate their decisions by the Word of God, it could be no blasphemy in Him whom the Father hath sent into the world to call Himself God s Son. If they represented God, how much more did He.” (Page 24)

“The adjectival form, chanun (חנון), gracious, is used only of God, and denotes the action which springs from His free and unmerited love to His creatures.” (Page 107)

“With God, to speak is to command; and with man, to hear ought to be to obey.^{3” (Page 207)}