Near the beginning of the fourth century, the idea occurred to Pamphilus and his friend Eusebius to publish copies of the fifth column, for they believed that Origen had succeeded in restoring the Old Greek version to its primitive purity. Other Christian recensions of the Greek Old Testament date from the fourth century. These are attributed to Lucian, a presbyter at Antioch, and to Hesychius, an Egyptian bishop martyred in A.D. 312, and were primarily stylistic in character. Over the centuries,