that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.
In the manner thus indicated, the scholars, some of them, have made this example (as they call it) their carte blanche permission to change the Hebrew text in any manner that pleases them; but we reject this.  In the first place, we have already noted that there is no certainty that James quoted this verse, having categorically stated that what he quoted came from more than one prophet (Acts 15:15); and the words might well have been James' own inspired words derived from interpretation of the general message of many Old Testament prophets.  But even if it could be proved that he actually quoted this changed translation from the LXX, the explanation would then be that offered by Barnes: