Subject: Nazirite ... immaculate conception??? |
Bible Note: Searcher, Eighty percent of the Old Testament citations in the New Testament are quotes from the Septuagint, including most of Jesus' quotes. Luke 1:15 has an implict reference to the Septuagint version of 1 Samuel 1:11 which includes the Nazarite vows promised of Samuel by his mother when she promised to dedicate him to the Lord. Samuel was another great prophet and precursor the first king of the Jews, as john was to The King of the Jews. These details are not found in the Hebrew version of 1 Samuel 1:11. "and she made a vow (1), promising: "O LORD of hosts, if you look with pity on the misery of your handmaid, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the LORD for as long as he lives; neither wine nor liquor shall he drink, and no razor shall ever touch his head." 1 [11] Give him to the LORD: some ancient texts call Samuel a nazir in this context" NAB Bible and footnote The NAB is a Catholic Bible translations and in passages where the where an Old Tetsament passage is cited in the New Testament is from the Septuagint, it follows the Septuagint translation in the Old Testament passage also. Since the Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew to the Greek by Jewish scholars about 200 years before the birth of Christ, it gives clear reflection of how the Hebrew passage was understood and also how the early Christians, most of whom, both Jews of the Disapora and Gentiles, understood certain passages. The early Church used the Septuagint because they spoke Greek not Hebrew, which is also why the New Testament was written in Greek. See my previous post #104494 on Isaiah 7:14 which addresses the same issues on a different text Matt 1:23 and Is 7:14. I don't undewrstand the "Immaculate Conception" question either. Some people confuse that with virgin birth but it is not the same. Immaculate Conception has to do with being conceive "immaculate" or "pure" from sin, not virgin birth. In any case neither applies to Samson, Samuel or John. Emmaus |