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Compare LXX Hosea 6:2 and 1 Corinthains 15:4

Septuagint · New Testament

Summary

1 Corinthians 15 mentions rising on the third day according to the scriptures, language similar to the Greek translation of Hosea 6, which speaks of rising on the third day. The Hebrew version is ambiguous, suggesting that Paul used the Greek text.

Passages

LXX Hosea 6:2

Septuagint

1 Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up. 2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, 3 and we shall know him; let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Hosea

1 Corinthains 15:4

New Testament

3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received—that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than 500 of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

55–57 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Corinthians

References

"... In its original context, there is little reason to doubt that Hos 6:2 is a reference to the restoration and healing of Israel, and not the resurrection of the dead. In later interpretation, however, probably beginning with the LXX and culminating in the targumic translation, the text was taken to describe the resurrection. W. Edward Glenny notes that for “early readers of the LXX, who were reading Hosea 6:2 in its context, the verse would be understood first of all to refer to the Lord’s restoration of his people, Israel, to himself and the nation’s resurrection back to life after a period, hopefully short (‘the third day’), of his chastisement of them.” He also admits, however, that the combination of “the third day,” “we will rise up” and “we will live” “suggest the resurrection of the dead in Hosea 6:2.” This implies that early readers of the LXX could have interpreted 6:2 to refer to resurrection, and this is reflected in later Jewish interpretation of the passage ..."

John G. Cook, Raised on the Third Day According to the Scriptures: Hosea 6:2 in Jewish Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 188–211.

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Compare LXX Hosea 6:2 and 1 Corinthains 15:4

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LXX Hosea 6:2

1 Corinthains 15:4

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