A substantial and sometimes neglected argument against the view that the NT uses the OT differently from its original meaning is C. H. Dodd’s classic work According to the Scriptures.11 In brief, Dodd observes that throughout the NT are numerous and scattered quotations that derive from the same few OT contexts. He asks why, given that the same segment of the OT is in view, there are so few identical quotations of the same verse; and second, why different verses are cited from the same segments of
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