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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

2:23 quotes Gen. 15:6; in 4:6, Prov. 3:34; 5:11 suggests Ps. 103:8; while many other single phrases occur in which the writer clearly betrays his familiarity with the LXX (see Westcott and Hort’s list of “Quotations from the Old Testament,” p. 607). In several cases (notably 2:23 φίλος θεοῦ, 5:20) there is a use of O. T. language in a translation at variance with the LXX, but these are brief phrases and do not in the least imply acquaintance with the Hebrew original. It may be added that one of
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