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- L - Lord’s
Supper. The
ordinance
which Christians are commanded to observe to memorialize Christ’s death
(Matt
26:26-29).
The Lord’s
Supper includes bread, which memorializes Christ’s broken body, and the
cup,
which memorializes His shed blood. For the Church,
the Lord’s Supper is
officially linked with the New Covenant (Jer.
31:31-34; Luke 17:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:25).
LXX. The Septuagint, the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. The word is taken from a Latin phrase which means "translation of the seventy interpreters." This phrase is found in the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, which states that seventy-two Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Bible into Koine Greek in Alexandria, Egypt at the request of Ptolemy II about 250 BC. Philo of Alexandria states that the seventy-two translators were kept in separate chambers and that they produced identical versions in seventy-two days! (See Wikipedia's entry on the Septuagint.) That, of course, sounds more like legend than sober history. Nevertheless, the term "Septuagint" has stuck with the translation. The Septuagint included the complete Tanakh, meaning the Hebrew Bible, including the Torah (Law), the Prophets, and the Writings. A significant value of the Septuagint lies in its assistance in the translation of rare Hebrew words. By 100 BC the Apocryphal books, along with a few other works (such as Odes), were incorporated into the Septuagint, including 1 Esdras, Judith, Tobit, 1, 2, 3, 4 Maccabbees, Sirach (Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus), Psalms of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, Epistle of Jeremiah, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. (This list of Apocryphal books is obtained from Bibloi 8.02 [Bible software], published by Silver Mountain Software copyrighted May 27, 2007.) Jesus Christ did not include the Apocryphal books in His canon of Scripture as revealed in Matt. 23:35 and Luke 11:51. Historically, the early church understood that these Apocryphal books did not have the status of Scripture. There are several on-line renderings of the Septuagint. One of them is the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS). If you have difficulty locating a file, please contact the Web Master. Updated March 29, 2010 Background and Button Image Credit |
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