Matthew 2:17 to Baruch & Matthew 24:15 to Susanna A third example, one we have considered already: … while it [is] not directly cited in the New Testament, Ruth was probably attached to the Book of Judges at the time of Christ. Consequently, when the writer to the Hebrews cited…
Hebrews 11:35 to 2 Maccabees 7:7 A second example: While Judges is not directly quoted as authoritative Scripture, events that are recorded in the Book of Judges are cited in the Book of Hebrews. We read the following: “And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me…
1 Timothy 6:10 to Sirach 31:1 Our first example from Stewart: While Ecclesiastes does not have any direct quotes from it in the New Testament, there are a number of passages that allude to it. For example, Paul wrote to Timothy: “For the love of money is at the root…
12 NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES TO THE APOCRYPHA So far: (1) the Jewish Study Bible asserts (and the early Christian lists evidence) that the Jewish canon was not settled until well after the time of Christ, (2) many early Church Fathers claimed the Jewish Scriptures had become incomplete by their time,…
THE JEWISH BIBLE VS. THE PROTESTANT CANON Let’s look at the Jewish canon issue from a different perspective—in fact a different Bible, the Jewish Study Bible.[1] “Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed … representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today. A committee of highly-respected biblical scholars and rabbis from…
HEBREWS 1:3 So now, let’s refocus just on Hebrews 1:3—the verse that the KJV says references Wisdom 7:26. We start with the Jimmy Swaggart Bible Commentary: Paul [who Swaggart believes wrote Hebrews] correlates in this Epistle as in no other, this great Finished Work with Old Testament typology … anyone…
HEBREWS: AN EPISTLE TO THOSE WHO ACCEPT APOCRYPHA? Now let’s take a deep dive into the Epistle of the Hebrews and see if that indicates anything about the Apocrypha and the Jews. After all, it is a letter to the Jews, and many of them were converted Jewish Priests (Acts…
A somewhat related analysis is that of the early Church’s use of the Bible. Matthew is not just the Gospel to the Jews; it was also the Gospel of the early Church. The Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary on Matthew (p. 34) says that “the early church cherished Matthew and quoted…
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: OLD TESTAMENT COMPARISON Let’s also look at things from the perspective of the Old Testament. Sirach and the Book of Wisdom are part of a seven-Book division of the Bible called the Poetic Books, or Sapiential Books, or Wisdom Books (that is, they would be part of the…
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PERFECTLY TAUGHT JEW According to the KJV, Paul accounts for almost as many possible cross references with the Apocrypha as all the other Evangelists combined. He who was “brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of…
