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Isa 28:16 don't be silent

--- *Lo Yachish [לֹא יָחִישׁ] — Don't Be Silent — The Fire Behind The Fence* Modern scholars say LXX made a typo in Isaiah 28:16. MT: *ha-ma'amin lo yachish [הַמַּאֲמִין לֹא יָחִישׁ]* — he who believes shall not make haste. LXX: *ou me kataischynthe [οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῇ]* — shall not be ashamed. So they tell us LXX confused *chet [ח]* for *bet [ב]* — read *yachish [יָחִישׁ]* as *yabosh [יֵבוֹשׁ]* — 954 *bosh [בּוֹשׁ]*. That's not hard evidence. That's hard presumption. Peter was *agrammatos [ἀγράμματος]* — unlearned — Acts 4:13 — could not read Greek well. He was not reading LXX in Alexandria. He was reading Hebrew, Targum. Yet 1 Peter 2:6 quotes "shall not be ashamed." Paul — Romans 9:33, 10:11 — same. You think Peter and Paul knew less than modern scholars? I don't. They knew letters. Look quickly at *chet-shin [ח-ש]* words — should have been obvious: *chashah [חָשָׁה - ח-ש-ה - 2814]* — to be silent — *al techsheh [אַל תֶּחֱשֶׁה]* — don't b...