THE BIBLE & GREECE: THE SEPTUAGINT
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Bible And Greece
a) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Septuagint
a) A couple of centuries before Christ, During the Greek period, the Old Testament was translated into the Greek language. This translation is called the Septuagint meaning "seventy" -because about seventy scholars translated it. This translation is quoted many times in the New Testament.. This enabled people who could not understand Hebrew, including dispersed Jews, to have access to God's word. In this we see God's providence at work to bring about his will.
The End ...
1. The Bible And Greecea) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Septuagint
a) A couple of centuries before Christ, During the Greek period, the Old Testament was translated into the Greek language. This translation is called the Septuagint meaning "seventy" -because about seventy scholars translated it. This translation is quoted many times in the New Testament.. This enabled people who could not understand Hebrew, including dispersed Jews, to have access to God's word. In this we see God's providence at work to bring about his will.
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