one belongs to A.D. 916). And the ‘Septuagint’ is, roughly, the O.T. in Greek; with a little more accuracy, it is a translation of the O.T. into Greek, with certain additional books, some, doubtless, translated, some originally composed in Greek. It is called the ‘Septuagint’ (usually abbreviated ‘LXX.’) because of a tradition that it was made by seventy, or more precisely seventy-two Jewish elders, at Alexandria, in the reign (284–247 B.C.) of Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of Egypt. Any visitor to
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