The Hebrew text which was translated hy Aquila agrees very closely with fH ; but it is interesting to observe that, of his few variations, some at least liave the support of still existing Hebrew MSS. The tetragrammaton ni.T is written in the old Hebrew letters. The version seems to have covered the whole of the Hebrew canon.
(' and he taXisJied* Uiwkrtrt). Again, we have in 1911 ir rrtipt^n Kuptov for «tj« I* 91. xifiiei, the latter {xuptoi) being read in A. A rommentary would have further the task of calling attention to the interpunction ; cf. Ps 44 (4ri)7, where it Is a question whether there must be a comma before and after « 0iof, or In v.s after ixpiru n^^OT in Is 611 after f;t:^"i'/^ and cTirT«Xxir ft*. In ll 716 itxuSu is In the Concordance of Hatch-Redpath re
«cK0<(, while it is a verb. etc.
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Strange is the statement of Origen on Lamenta- tions (new edition, iii. 256) : "E/cSocrtt 5^ 'A<cAa »taJ OioSoriutfOS iv TOfS Op^fois ov ip^peratj fxovov o^ ^Vfi/xdx^^ Kal tiSk 'B^So/iriKoi'Ta, especially when we compare the same author's remark on 4^ (p. 270) : o 5i 'Ajri^Aas iifnj irvfC^a fivKTy)puv ij/i^y, ^Vfifiaxos oi vvoij II. ii. (see Field, ii, 743 11'. ).
(2) Theodotion's work — on his date see Sw. p. 42 f., ami Th. Zahn, PA'£'» ix. 403 (on Irena;us)— was rather a revision of G than an independent version, the revision being made on the whole upon the basis of IB. For a specimen of it see Jer 40"'" and the 13k. of Daniel, where it replaced the original G ; see S. R. Driver, The Book of Daniel, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools, 1900, pp. xviii, .\cviii-c. The statement that his version seems to have in- cluded Baruch {Dui. Ckr. Biog. iv. 44 ; Sw. p. 44, etc.) is to be corrected after the explanation given above, p. 450, note t. Cf. on Theodotion (whose name h.as the same meaning as that of the Tar- gumist .Jonathan), Rahlfs in GGN, 1898, p. 109.
(3) The works of Symmachus, including a Com- mentary on St. Matthew,* Origen got from a Christian woman, Juliana,t who had received them from the author liiraself. If Aquila is the most important of the three because of his literal- ness, Symni. is in many respects the most interest- ing for his attempt to produce good Greek and for many of his interpretations ; cf. Gn 1-'' (KTtffer 6 Oeds Tie SivOp'jjTrov iv ilKbvi dtatpipui' 6p$ioy [i ^efis] (KTiaev ainiv with 1 S 28" (Nestle, Marginalien, p. 3).
(4) Besides these versions of the whole of the OT, Origen had at his disposal for single books two or three otlier versions, which from their place in tlie Hexapla got the designations Quinia (e' iri iTTTTi), Sexta {t (ktij), Septimn (f i^SS/iTj). As to wlience and when he obtained Siem, tradition varies (see Sw. p. 5311.): one at Nicopolis near Actium, the other at Jericho ; one under Caracalla, the other under Alexander Severus. One at least is reported to have been found iv irlBois ; from this and from the expression of Eusebius, ovx oTo' S8ev (k Tivuv pn'x^v rdv irdXai Xac^at'OtVas xpitvov els (puji di'ix'fi'ffo!, it has been concluded that they were, perhaps, hidden during a time of persecution, and that the one found at Nicopolis may have been a relic of tlie early Christianity of Kpirus (see Sw. p. 55, quoting from Lightfoot, Bihlical Essays, p. 432). Hut ir/ffoi — see Sw. p. 53, n. 2 — are mentioned elsewhere, as used for preserving books instead of cistm or capsm. Jerome attributes both to Jewish translators; but they seem rather to be due to Christians. The autlior of the Quinia is charac- terize<l by Field as omnium elegantissimus. Which of the books of the OT were preserved in them is not quite clear ; in the Quinta at all events 4 Regn., Job, Ps.alm8, Canticles, Minor Prophets; in tlie Hexta also Job, I'aaliiis, Canticles, Ilai) 3.
A kind of version sometimes seems to be quoted as (5 2i;po5 (see Syriac Versions) and A 'E^patot; but under the latter designation are to be under- stood Greek quotations from the Helircw, due to such authors as were acquainted with that lan- guage.
Tlie so-called Gracus Venctus, a version of part of the OT, preserved in a single MS of the 14th or 15th cent, at Venice, is interesting as the work
• On the hope that this work wna still in existence In the loth cent. 8<.'e Urt. p. 83. On tliL' suet of the Svmniiu;hiaiii Ke l'hila»triu8, d« hceres. c. 145 : ' hmrftici aiii qui Ihcodotionis etSymmachi ibidem iiiteri»retationem diverso modo Bequutitur,' »nd the remark of the »,>Tnc writer, a 116: 'est hmrusis, (|ua> iterum poot Aquilani f n'f/iHfahominum interpretationein oocipit, oon illorum Deatissiiuorum Bcptua^nta duorum qui intcgre Inriolutcque de Trinitate Bcntientes ecclesin cathollcB (unila- menta certiisima tradiderunt interpretantes scripturu mens. '
t Th » tombstone of a certain Juliana from Antioch, who died »t Oerasa, haa been found there bj' Merrill ; see lUi, UJ95, S86 ; ich'jrer, GV Y* u. liSn., 83i
of a medioeval .Tew, perhaps a certain Elissens at the court of Murad I. at -Vdrianople in the 2nd half of the 14tli cent. : it attempts to give the Hebrew in Attic Greek and the Aramaic parts of Daniel in the Doric dialect, and renders .ti.t by (SfTwr^y, oiaLoyrfjs, dvrovpybs. See the edition of O. V. Gebhardt (Leipzig, 1875, with a Preface by Franz Delitzsch ; Sw. p. 56).