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NASB | Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 13:8 All the inhabitants of the earth will fall down and worship him, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who has been slain [as a willing sacrifice]. |
Subject: Are those drawn 2 Christ raised to life? |
Bible Note: Greetings Phil! Fact 1: Matthew doesn't say to look in Jeremiah. He says "what was spoken by Jeremiah was fulfilled". I just want to make sure that our facts are precise! ;-) Fact 2: You never find the precise quote from Mt. 27:9-10 in Jeremiah. Fact 3: You also never find the precise quote from Mt. 27:9-10 in Zechariah. The quote from Mt. 27:9-10 is most similar to Zech. 11:12-13, but common words are also found in Jeremiah. Just so we are clear, here is the quote from Mt. alongside Zech. 11:12-13: Mt. 27:9b-10 - "...They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel, 10 and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me." Zech. 11:12-13: "I told them, 'If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.' So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter' — the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter." Now, are these two quotes identical? No! Here is what the Bible Knowledge Commentary says about this issue: ********************************* Matthew viewed these events as the fulfillment of a prophecy of Jeremiah. But the prophecy Matthew quoted was primarily from Zechariah, not Jeremiah. There is a close resemblance between Matthew 27:9-10 and Zechariah 11:12-13. But there are also similarities between Matthew’s words and the ideas in Jeremiah 19:1, 4, 6, 11. Why then did Matthew refer only to Jeremiah? The solution to this problem is probably that Matthew had both prophets in mind but only mentioned the “major” prophet by name. (A similar situation is found in Mark 1:2-3, where Mark mentioned the Prophet Isaiah but quoted directly from both Isaiah and Malachi.) In addition, another explanation is that Jeremiah, in the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 14b), was placed first among the prophets, and his book represented all the other prophetic books. *********************************** Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |