Persecution

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Appearance of "the law": The Prophet Ezekiel

WHAT DOES THE PROPHET EZEKIEL
SAY ABOUT THE LAW?

187. (Ezekiel 7:26):    

                                    Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor.
                                    Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the lawH8451 will perish
                                    from the priest, And counsel from the elders.

                                                H8451 (
ותורה : Torah)            G3551 (νομος : nomos)

188. (Ezekiel 22:26-28):

                                    26 Her priests have violated My lawH8451 and profaned My holy things;
                                    they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they
                                    made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they
                                    have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among
                                    them. 27 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed
                                    blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets
                                    plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining
                                    lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not
                                    spoken.

                                                H8451 (
תורתי : Torah)            G3551  (νομον : nomon)

189. (Ezekiel 43:12):  

                                    10 “Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be
                                    ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if
                                    they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the
                                    design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its
                                    entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it
                                    down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its
                                    ordinances, and perform them. 12 This is the lawH8451 of the temple: The
                                    whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the
                                    law of the temple.

                                                H8451 (
תורת : Torah)             ABSENT

In the Greek text of the LXX verse 12 actually eliminates the term "law" as says instead:

                              "And the diagram of the temple upon the top of the mountain, all its limits round 
                              about the holy of holies."

Again we find the translators of the LXX failing to use terms which are equivalent and convey the Hebrew adequately. The Greek text creates a veil that MUST be lifted in order to properly understand the underlying language originally used.


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