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1 Whiston, W.An Essay toward Restoring the True Text of the Old Testament (London, 1722), p. 283Google Scholar; Carpzov, J. G., A Defense of the Hebrew Bible (London, 1729), pp. 104–83.Google Scholar
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1 Stendahl, K., The School of St Matthew (Uppsala, 1954). Cf. New Testament Studies, 1 (November 1954), 155 ff.Google Scholar
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3 ibid. p. 35. Pesher (
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1 Stendahl recognizes that this type of interpretation is present in apocalyptic writings and occasionally in the rabbis (ibid. p. 195), and that it is found in other N.T. writings, especially the Fourth Gospel. But he concludes that there were fewer intentional changes based on the Hebrew, and ‘thus the elaborate stage of the pesher found in Matthew scarcely existed’ (ibid. p. 202).
2 The manner in which this citation is parenthetically inserted suggests that the whole verse—the O.T. text plus the interpretation—was taken as a quotation by Paul. Cf. I Cor. xv. 45; I Tim. v. 18; II Tim. ii. 19.
3 On Rom. i. 17, cf. Burney, C. F., The Gospel in the Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1921), pp. 129f.Google Scholar; the LXX ‘to whom’ in Rom. xv. 21 accords much more explicitly with Paul's application than the indefinite 
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4 E.g. Rom. iii. 18 (
to 
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to 
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to 
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5 E.g. Paul's citations from Job (Rom. xi. 35; I Cor. iii. 19) may follow the Hebrew simply because it is the most familiar text.
1 So Toy, C. H., Quotations in the New Testament (New York, 1884), in loc. The pael 
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