| Bullinger: DESTRUCTION => RIGHTEOUSNESS (The SUN)
Destruction. The primitive reading was doubtless ha-zedek = “righteousness”, which the Sept. simply translates, ásed??. From a desire not to compete with “Jerusalem”, which bore this name (Isaiah 1:26):
Isaiah 1:26
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
KJV
It was altered to cheres, which in Chaldee = “the sun”, or in Greek = “Heliopolis”, which is the reading in many MSS., two early printed editions, and the margins of the A.V. and R.V. But when the temple at Jerusalem was cleansed and restored, the temple at Heliopolis was deemed schismatic; and, by altering one letter ( = CH, for = H), cheres (the sun) was altered to heres (destruction). Hence the present reading of the current Hebrew text. See Ginsburg, Introduction, pp. 404-8 and sp.81
(from the Companion Bible)
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