LXX Psalms

Septuagint

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Psalm 115

1 Hallelujah. I believed, therefore I have spoken:⁠ but I was greatly afflicted. 2 And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar. 3 What shall I render to the Lord for all the things with which he has rewarded me? 4 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.⁠ 5 6 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 7 Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your female servant: you have burst my bonds apart. 8 I will offer to you the sacrifice of praise. 9 I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people, 10 in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem.

Texts in conversation

Compare LXX Psalm 115:4 and 1 Corinthians 10:16

Septuagint · New Testament

Summary

In the Greek Septuagint version of this psalm, the singer answers his deliverance by receiving a cup of salvation and calling on the name of God. Paul uses similar language, the cup of blessing, for the cup his community blesses and shares.

Passages

LXX Psalm 115:4

Septuagint

1 Hallelujah. I believed, therefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted. 2 And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar. 3 What shall I render to the Lord for all the things with which he has rewarded me? 4 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

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

1 Corinthians 10:16

New Testament

14 So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say. 16 Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

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

References

“... Then the psalmist gives thanks, using the expression of lifting up “the cup of salvation” (116:13 [cf. Paul’s use of “the cup of blessing” in 1 Cor. 10:16]): “I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.” C. The Context in Judaism. Martin (1986: 83) notes that “the substance of the quotation” from Ps. 116 “is without parallel in the use the rabbis make of the OT.” Perhaps the general idea of the suffering righteous person as expressed in this psalm may be in Paul’s mind concerning his own ministry as well. If so, then he sees himself in a tradition present in both biblical and extrabiblical Jewish writings (cf., e.g., Pss. 22; 30; 34; 40; 118; 130; T. Jos. 1:3–7; see Thrall 1994–2000: 1:329–30). ...”

Peter Balla, "2 Corinthians" in Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson, editors. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 1766.

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LXX Psalms151 psalms

Compare LXX Psalm 115:4 and 1 Corinthians 10:16

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Passages

LXX Psalm 115:4

1 Corinthians 10:16

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