not fully content the learned, no not of the _Jews_. For not long after _Christ_, _Aquila_ fell in hand with a new translation, and after him _Theodotion_, and after him _Symmachus_; yea, there was a fifth, and a sixth edition, the authors whereof were not known. These with the _Seventy_ made up the _Hexapla_, and were worthily and to great purpose compiled together by _Origen_. Howbeit the edition of the _Seventy_ went away with the credit, and therefore not only was placed in the midst by _Origen_, (for the worth and excellency thereof above the rest, as _Epiphanius_ gathereth,) [Sidenote: _Epiphan. De mensuris et ponderib. St. August. 2. De doctrin. Christian. c. 15. Novel. diatax. 146._] but also was used by the _Greek_ Fathers for the ground and foundation of their commentaries. Yea, _Epiphanius_ abovenamed doth attribute so much unto it, that he holdeth the authors thereof not only for interpreters, [Sidenote: Προφητικῆς ὥσπερ χάριτος περιλαξμψάσης αὐτους.] but also for prophets in some respect: and _Justinian_ the Emperor, injoining the _Jews_ his subjects to use especially the translation of the _Seventy_, rendereth this reason thereof, Because they were, as it were, enlightened with prophetical grace. [Sidenote: Isai. 31. 3.] Yet for all that, as the _Egyptians_ are said of the Prophet to be men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit: so it is evident, (and St. _Hierome_ affirmeth as much,) [Sidenote: _St. Hieron. de optimo genere interpret._] that the _Seventy_ were interpreters, they were not prophets. They did many things well, as learned men; but yet as men they stumbled and fell, one while through oversight, another while through ignorance; yea, sometimes they may be noted to add to the original, and sometimes to take from it: which made the Apostles to leave them many times, when they left the _Hebrew_, and to deliver the sense thereof according to the truth of the word, as the Spirit gave them utterance. This may suffice touching the _Greek_ translations of the Old Testament.