Holy Scripture
Holy Scripture
The Church’s own book, received and canonised by her and read within her. Orthodoxy uses the Septuagint for the Old Testament, where the Latin West follows the Hebrew text, and holds the same twenty-seven books of the New. Scripture is not set over against Tradition but is its written heart: it is proclaimed liturgically before it is studied privately, and it is read with the Fathers rather than against them.
Read it here
They are on this site in the Greek the Church reads, beside the English, verse by verse:
Sources
- St. John of Damascus, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV (On Scripture) NPNF
- Georges Florovsky, Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View
- Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church archive.org, to borrow