Tetrapla—or whether Origen actually created the Tetrapla first (if at all). Obviously, many areas of Hexapla research remain quite unsettled. What is certain is that the edition of the Greek Old Testament text that was produced from Origen’s fifth column, often called the “Hexaplaric recension,” became extremely influential over the following centuries. Two later scholars—Pamphilus, the custodian of Origen’s personal library, and Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea—continued to develop the text between
Page 96