On this Feast of Saint Methodius of Constantinople, patriarch and object of great veneration in the East because of the role he played in the final defeat of iconoclasm and his suffering in prison: Today’s readings come from the Proper of Seasons: 2 Corinthians 4: 7-15 Psalm 116: 10-11, 15-18 Matthew 5: 27-32 Ptolemy, the King of Egypt, when he had constructed a library in Alexandria, and had filled it by collecting books from everywhere, afterwards learned that ancient histories written in Hebrew letters had been carefully preserved. Desiring to know these writings, he sent for seventy wise men from Jerusalem who knew both the Greek and the Hebrew languages, and appointed them to translate the books. …He supplied attendants to care for their every need, and also to prevent their communicating with each other, so that it might be possible to know the accuracy of the translation, by their agreement one with another. When he found that the seventy men had given not only the same meaning, but even in the same words, and had failed to agree with each other by not so much as a single word, but had written the same things about the same things, he was struck with amazement, and believed that the translation had been written with divine authority. – Exhortation to the Greeks (circa 281 AD) Anyone else know the legendary miracle of the Septuagint? I don’t think many Protestants do, but it’s pretty significant as many Catholics take for granted the Hebrew Scriptures they have. They don’t realize its origins, but they should because God’s divine revelations are eternal throughout mankind’s history.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:08:51 +0000
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