about through the miraculous work of the Spirit. In other words, from the outset the Seventy have greater weight than a single translator like Jerome. Augustine thereby rejects Jerome’s critique of the Seventy and would prefer to deny his new translation recognition by the church by appealing to the seventy witnesses (see above, p. 36). But he is unable to escape the argument that significant differences exist between the work of the Seventy and the Hebrew text. He resolves the difficult point (aporia)