Acts 15:17

ὅπως ἂν ἐκζητ. οἱ κ. τῶν ἀνθρώπων τόν Κ.: LXX and Hebrew are here considerably at variance. Hebrew: “that they may possess the remnant of Edom”. In LXX: “that the rest of men may seek after (the Lord)” (so also Arabic Version, whilst Vulgate, Peshitto, and Targum support the Massoretic text, see Briggs, u. s., p. 162). In LXX A τὸν Κ. is found, but not in B. In LXX rendering אָדָם, men, takes the place of אֱדוֹם, Edom, and יִדְרְשׁוּ instead of יִירְשׁוּ, i.e., דָּרַשׁ, to seek, instead of יָרַשׁ, to possess. καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη : explicative, “the rest of men,” i.e., the heathen: “sine respectu personarum et operum”. ὅπως ἂν, Winer-Moulton, xlii., 6; Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 85; cf. Luke 2:35; Acts 3:19; Romans 3:4, and in no other instances, three of these quotations from LXX. ἐφʼ οὓς ἐπικέκ.… ἐπʼ α.: “upon whom my name is called [pronounced]”: Hebraistic formula, cf. LXX, Jeremiah 41:15; and Deuteronomy 28:10; Isaiah 63:19 2Ma 8:15. In James 2:7, and only there in the N.T. does the same formula recur (see Mayor, Introd., and Nösgen, Geschichte der Neutest. Offb., ii., 51).