Angel
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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." Hosea 4:6
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Post by Angel on Mar 25, 2004 23:39:05 GMT -8
I found an interesting "challenge" when reading a passage of Matthew the other day...
Let me start with the prophecy that was fulfilled: Zechariah 9:9 states (New ASB version):
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout {in triumph,} O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
But, the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) have a bit of a difference when describing the scene when Yeshua enters Jerusalem -- in fulfillment of the Zechariah prophecy.
Check out Matthew 21:1-9 then Mark 11:1-10 then Luke 19:29-38.
Mark and Luke describe Yeshua riding ONE animal -- but Matthew describes Yeshua riding on TWO animals ( adonkey AND her foal) !!!
How is this possible? Did Matthew not have the same understanding of the hebrew text of Zechariah or was something added/changed when the "autographs" (original texts) were copied into what we now know of as the bible?
Comments anyone?
Thanks!
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Post by R' Y'hoshua Moshe on Mar 26, 2004 1:09:20 GMT -8
Many times when we see conflicting statements like this from the writers of the Brit HaDashah they are both true statements from different perspectives.
David H. Stern writes,
"One can explain if, of course, by saying he did not sit on them simultaneously but in succession, kindly giving the colt rest, since it had never been ridden. One can even find meaning in Yeshua's action: his sitting on not only the donkey, but its colt symbolizes his utter humilation at His first coming, since the colt is described as the mere offspring of a beast of burden, even lower in status than the mother animal.
Furthermore, the Greek grammar allows a different approach. In v.5 Greek kai, corresponding to Hebrew letter vav makes it possible to replace "and on a colt" with any of these alternatives: "yes, on a colt," "indeed, on a colt," "even on a colt", or "that is, on a colt". These eliminate explicitly the need for two animals in order to fulfill the prophecy, without excluding the possibility that there were nevertheless two animals there."
I hope this helps,
Shalom,
Reuel
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Angel
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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." Hosea 4:6
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Post by Angel on Mar 26, 2004 9:00:07 GMT -8
That's a helpful way of looking at Matthew's version... I never thought of it that way...
One other important fact I'd like to introduce is that the KING JAMES version shows Zechariah 9:9 as:
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass" (emphasis mine)
This is just another one of those "little" discrpencies (errors ) in translation that exist in the KJV, which helps enforce why I prefer the NASB or Amplified versions...
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