[Steven Avery]

Originally Posted by MDOC

He is talking about Acts 13:41, not 13:40. That's a partial quote of Hab. 1:5.

Hi MDOC, please read my post, and the verse section, more carefully, starting with my quoting Soph. And please note that you make the exact same error as Soph, since Paul never says he is quoting Habakkuk. Clearly Habakkuk is a good part of the reference.

In Acts 13:40 you learn that the quote to come, Acts 13:41, will be what "is spoken of in the prophets" (plural). The prophets are referenced, in much the same way that Mark quoted "As it is written in the prophets" in Mark 1:2, referencing referencing Malachi 3:1 and Isaiah 40:3.

Mark 1:1-3
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God;
As it is written in the prophets,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,
which shall prepare thy way before thee.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.

Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way before me:
and the Lord, whom ye seek,
shall suddenly come to his temple,
even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in:
behold, he shall come,
saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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That is a very similar phrasing as in our verses:

Acts 13:40-41
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you,
which is spoken of in the prophets;
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish:
for I work a work in your days,
a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
though a man declare it unto you.

Habakkuk and Isaiah verses above.

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This was a New Testament style of writing.
Here is another example, there are more.

John 6:45
It is written in the prophets,
And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard,
and hath learned of the Father,
cometh unto me.

Isaiah 54:13
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD;
and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying,
Know the LORD:
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more.

Micah 4:2
And many nations shall come, and say,
Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
and to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths:
for the law shall go forth of Zion,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Note: In Acts 13:40, the King James Bible does not err like some modern versions by putting the next verse in quotation marks.

And the modern versions err in Mark 1:2, speaking of only Malachi.

That is one of the beautiful aspects of the Bible, the interweaved purity of scripture, the Divine unity of scripture .. once impurity sets in (as in the modern versions) error begets error, nothing fits really right. Only in the pure and perfect Bible does each piece fit together perfectly.

Here is a little quote from Adolph Saphir:

The Divine Unity of Scripture
I do not say that the Bible contains the Word of God. I say that the Bible is the Word of God. I think it is a most erroneous and dangerous thing to say that the Bible contains the Word of God. The Bible with its history, with its laws, with its poetry, with its maxims, with its biographies, with its epistles, with everything that is in it, is the Word of God.

Shalom,
Steven