in the text of the Old Testament. The text of the Septuagint, which was and is the Bible of the Greek-speaking Churches, differs widely from the Massoretic Hebrew. In short, the first of Burgon’s main propositions is neither convincing a priori nor in fact reconcilable with history. History makes it clear that God in His wisdom has permitted great deviations in the tradition of the sacred text through the frailty of its human trustees, though always so that its substance was not lost or seriously