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In 1 Clement, the author quotes as scripture a promise that God will come quickly, which joins Isaiah 13 to Malachi 3 in a form unlike the Greek Septuagint translation. It may come from the same lost Jewish writing that Clement quotes just before it.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Malachi 3:1
Septuagint
1 “Look, I send my messenger, and he will observe the way before my face. And suddenly, the Lord, whom you seek, will come into his own temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom you want, look, he comes,” says the Lord Almighty. 2 “But who will endure the day of his entrance, or who will stand in his appearance? Because he enters as a fire of a furnace and as a kind of cleansing. 3 He will sit, smelting and cleansing, as if it were silver and as if it were gold; and he will purify the children of Levi and pour them out just like gold and like silver, and they will become those who bring to the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 23:5
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
3 Let this scripture be far from us where He says “Wretched are the double-minded, Who doubt in their soul and say, ‘These things we did hear in the days of our fathers also, and behold we have grown old, and none of these things has befallen us.’” 4 “You fools, compare yourselves to a tree; take a vine. First it sheds its leaves, then a shoot comes, then a leaf, then a flower, and after these a sour berry, then a full ripe grape. You see that in a little time the fruit of the tree attains to mellowness.” 5 “Truly quickly and suddenly shall His will be accomplished,” the scripture also bearing witness to it, saying “He shall come quickly and shall not tarry; and the Lord shall come suddenly into His temple, even the Holy One, whom you expect.”
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Notes and References
“... However, we have argued (see Form/Structure/Setting section on 3:1–4) that 2 Peter’s Jewish apocalyptic source was explicitly concerned with the problem of eschatological delay, and since the arguments in vv 8–9 certainly derive from Jewish apocalyptic (see Comment), it is plausible to attribute them to the same source as the author has followed in vv 4–7. (With the allusion to Hab 2:3 in 2 Pet 3:9, cf. the composite quotation of Isa 13:22 and Mal 3:1, in a version differing from the LXX, in 1 Clem 23:5, immediately following 1 Clem’s quotation from the Jewish apocalypse. This quotation may well come from the same apocalypse.) ...”
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