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APPENDIX II

THE TEXT TYPE OF THE QUOTATION

The form in which the Old Testament is quoted throughout the epistle is regularly that of the Septuagint version. In so far as we can distinguish two Septuagint recensions, corresponding in the main to the texts exhibited by the Codices A (Alexandrinus) and B (Vaticanus), about two-thirds of the quotations in Hebrews agree with the A-text and about one-third with the B-text. The natural inference is that our author used a type of text earlier than either the A-text or the B-text as we known these from extant witnesses. Where his text deviates from both A and B, he appears to have selected his variants for interpretational purposes.32

 
32 F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Hebrews, NICNT (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1968), p. xlix.

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