Comments on: Hebrews 10:5-7 and Its Quotation of Psalm 40:6-8 (LXX 39:6-8): Another Very Tough Road to Hoe for the Traditional Inspiration View

By: MSH

MSH — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:40:11 +0000

I’ll bet you’re right — I’ve always heard it the other way, but your wording makes much more sense! Thanks!

By: DundalkChris

DundalkChris — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:57:07 +0000

A very, very cool blog, and clealy far above my ignernt redneck abilities. So how can I dare suggest a correction? Nonetheless… I think you mean “row” to hoe. Y’ever do much gard’nin’?

By: MSH

MSH — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:31:25 +0000

@blop2008: I’m not a Hebrews specialist, but I’ve never come across anything that proposes an Aramaic or Hebrew original.

By: MSH

MSH — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:27:45 +0000

@blop2008: Very interesting. My bet is that a search of something like the ATLA Religion Database for “paronamasia” would produce some articles that weren’t only about TC and OT in NT issues.

By: blop2008

blop2008 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:02:22 +0000

Clarification from comment above:

When I said “if the same kind of rhetorical skills would apply to other more direct models or types in the OT” I did not mean to imply that Karen discussed types in the OT. He discusses quotations from NT authors in the OT that are phonetically re-arranged to put emphasize on the quotation and apply it to Christ. However, What about the quotations in Psalms 22 in the NT Gospel?

And by the way, Wasn’t the epistle to the Hebrews written in Aramaic or Hebrew initially and then translated in Greek by…an apostle? If so, this would also have to be taken into consideration.

By: blop2008

blop2008 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:56:17 +0000

Hos 12:9 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast. I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.

I have read The Function of Paronomasia in Hebrews 10:5–7 and I find that Karen has done a nice job in his analysis of the apparent “misquotation” in Psalms 40.

However, I wonder if the same kind of rhetorical skills would apply to other more direct models or types in the OT. What about Psalms 22? What about the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22:6-19:

Gen 21:1-5: Isaac is miraculously born in Abraham and Sarah’s old age (The miraculous birth of Jesus).

Gen 22:2&16: Isaac is the only son of Abraham [that is, unique or one-of-a-kind] (Jesus is the Monogenes of the Father).

Gen 22:2: Was to be sacrified on Mount Moriah (supposedly the same area around Calvary / Jerusalem)

Gen 22:6: Abraham takes the wood and puts it on Isaac (Cross)

Gen 22:7-8: Isaac is the Lamb (Jesus)

Gen 22:9: Abraham binds Isaac ready for sacrifice

and the final pebble would be the similitude or parabolic allusion in Hebrews 11:17-19:

11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
11:18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
11:19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

So in a sense, or in a similitude, Abraham did get Isaac back, although Isaac appears not to come down with Abraham in Gen 22:19 (he obviously did, but the text does not say so) and this typifies the resurrection of Christ to the author of Hebrews. Isaac only reappears later on in Gen 24:

Gen 22:5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” Indeed, they come back again.