We have fleshed out how the Greek Old Testament bears derivative authority for the Greek-speaking church of its day: an authority that is not independent of but rather flows from its source. Let us state two takeaways. First, quotations of the Greek Old Testament in the New Testament do not mean that the quoted textual form is itself inspired, nor that the textual form should necessarily replace the form of the Masoretic Text (if different), nor that the Greek Old Testament as a whole must
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