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Please, understand this as a generic statement and not a personal slam:
I think we all, from time to time, get so lost "in the weeds" on bible study that we forget the general meaning of what we're reading. That is, we can't see the forest for the trees. I think "jot" and "tittle" have become nuances in the bark of a tree, and we're forgetting the meaning of the verse in question. IMO that meaning is that not even the most insignificant part of the law "will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished'. As long as we understand that "jot and tittle" refers to even "part's of letters of words", we're getting the point.
Nowhere was I suggesting that jots and tittles being Hebrew was the main point Jesus was trying to make in what He was saying in Matthew 5:18. I understand that Jesus' point was that not one detail shall not pass away from the Law and the Prophets until all of them are fulfilled. The Law of Moses was fulfilled upon the cross. Yet, the Prophets portion of the “Law and the Prophets” has yet to be fulfilled because there are many end times prophecies in the Old Testament that need to still be fulfilled. The Old Law was fulfilled upon the cross (Note: This does not mean there is no more Laws under the New Covenant). So yeah, I get the main point. But to say that Jesus quoted from the LXX is to ignore the Jewishness of Jesus Christ. Jesus said salvation was of the Jews and He told His disciples to not go into the way of the Gentiles. So Jesus was very Jewish. This is something you have to ignore in order to favor the LXX.
You said:I really try to avoid violating 2 Timothy 2:23 and Titus 3:9, not to mention several other versus.
I have no idea what foolish questions you are referring to. Yes, Rahab (who was a Gentile) was in the line of Jesus Christ. But Jesus is predominatly a Jew in his lineage or line. Jesus did things the Jewish way because He came first to the lost house of the tribe of Israel. This is all smeared with mud if Jesus quoted from a Gentile set of writings of the Scriptures. The Gentiles were not considered a group of people who knew God. Therein lies the problem in saying that the Gentiles had followed God more correctly before Christ's birth.
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