an incipient attempt at interpretation which seems to have originated with the translators of the Pentateuch, and to have been carried on by their successors.”4 But that the LXX should be looked on as a theological commentary, as has sometimes been suggested, and thereby used as a primary source for a knowledge of the hermeneutical procedures of the day, is an overstatement of the facts. As Jellicoe points out in speaking of the various “translational units” in the LXX and their respective philosophies