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  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Quotations 
  from  the  Old  Testament  in  the  New  which  are  very  numerous,  are 
  not  made  according  to  any  uniform  method.  When  the  New  Testament 
  was  written,  the  Old  was  not  divided,  as  it  now  is  into 
  chapters  and  verses,  and  hence  such  peculiarities  as  these:  When 
  Luke  (20:37)  refers  to  Ex  3:6,  he  quotes  from  "Moses  at  the 
  bush",  i.e.,  the  section  containing  the  record  of  Moses  at  the 
  bush.  So  also  Mark  (2:26)  refers  to  1  Sam.  21:1-6,  in  the  words 
  "in  the  days  of  Abiathar;"  and  Paul  (Rom.  11:2)  refers  to  1 
  Kings  ch  17-19,  in  the  words  "in  Elias",  i.e.,  in  the  portion 
  of  the  history  regarding  Elias. 
 
  In  general,  the  New  Testament  writers  quote  from  the 
  Septuagint  (q.v.)  version  of  the  Old  Testament,  as  it  was  then 
  in  common  use  among  the  Jews.  But  it  is  noticeable  that  these 
  quotations  are  not  made  in  any  uniform  manner.  Sometimes  e.g., 
  the  quotation  does  not  agree  literally  either  with  the  LXX.  or 
  the  Hebrew  text.  This  occurs  in  about  one  hundred  instances. 
  Sometimes  the  LXX.  is  literally  quoted  (in  about  ninety 
  instances),  and  sometimes  it  is  corrected  or  altered  in  the 
  quotations  (in  over  eighty  instances). 
 
  Quotations  are  sometimes  made  also  directly  from  the  Hebrew 
  text  (Matt.  4:15,  16;  John  19:37;  1  Cor.  15:54).  Besides  the 
  quotations  made  directly,  there  are  found  numberless  allusions, 
  more  or  less  distinct,  showing  that  the  minds  of  the  New 
  Testament  writers  were  filled  with  the  expressions  and  ideas  as 
  well  as  historical  facts  recorded  in  the  Old 
 
  There  are  in  all  two  hundred  and  eighty-three  direct 
  quotations  from  the  Old  Testament  in  the  New  but  not  one  clear 
  and  certain  case  of  quotation  from  the  Apocrypha  (q.v.). 
 
  Besides  quotations  in  the  New  from  the  Old  Testament,  there 
  are  in  Paul's  writings  three  quotations  from  certain  Greek 
  poets,  Acts  17:28;  1  Cor.  15:33;  Titus  1:12.  These  quotations 
  are  memorials  of  his  early  classical  education.




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