... Schoeps had already called attention to the Septuagint of Obadiah 1, where "and a messenger has been sent among the nations" is rendered: "and he sent a rampart unto the nations," and Schoeps had traced the remarkable translation back to a confusion of the stems [tsir] ("messenger") and [tsur] ("to enclose"; [tsur] "rampart, enclosure"). But Baltzer and Koster were the first to observe that—without resorting to a hypothetical Hebrew text which Hegesippus would have read or perhaps would himself have written—the Septuagint of Obadiah 1 is all that is needed to explain Hegesippus' interpretation of Obadias, the traditional honorary name of the Lord's brother. Moreover, reference to the prophets then becomes both understandable and significant. Furthermore, in James 1:1 there could be an allusion to Obadias meaning "servant of the Lord." ...