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
(Matthew 4:15, 16; John 19:37; 1 Corinthians 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
Corinthians 15:33; Titus 1:12. These quotations are memorials of his early
classical education.