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LuciAN. A. D. 290. 207
Egypt : but*" Martianay denies this. He says that the editions
made by Lucian and llesy chins were used in those
countries by a few only, and those men of mistaken judgment
; and tliat the edition made from Origen's Ilexapla
generally prevailed everywhere: and it nuist be owned,
that in the last cited passag'e Jeroni not only censures the
interpolations of those two critics in the New Testament, but
likewise their emendations of the Old: and in the passage
which I have put in the margin, he depreciates Lucian's
edition of the Seventy, in comparison of Origen's, which last
he himself folloM^ed in his translation of the Old Testament
from the Greek.
Humphrey Hody doubted whether*^ Lucian and Hesychius
had ever seen Origen's edition of the version of the Seventy :
nor indeed have M'e any certain information upon that head,
very little being said of their editions in the remaining pieces
of ancient authors : but as Origen's performance was much
celebrated, and his Tetrapla and Hexapla had been formed
a good while before Lucian and Hesychius undertook any
thing- of that kind, it may be thought probable that those
learned men were acquainted with Origen's Seventy ; though
perhaps they had not seen that correct edition which was
published by Pamphilus and Eusebius.
The author of the Synopsis Scripturee Sacrse, or of an
addition to it, callss the seventh and the last Greek version
of the Old Testament Lucian's ; and says that this version
was made from the Hebrew ; and was found in the time of
Constantine the Great at Nicomedia, privately hid in the
hands of some Jews : which is in the main agreeable to
what"^ is said in the Acts of Metaphrastes, before cen-
" Hutic locum male intelligunt, qui putant in omnibus Christi ecclesiis i(a
iisurpatas fuisse editiones Graecas LXX. interpretum, ut in Alexandrinorum et
^gyptiorum conventibus publice populo christiano legerentur sacri codice«
juxta emendationem Hesychii ; in ecclesiis autem Constantmopolitanis usque
ad Antiochiam, juxta Luciani martyris recognitionem. Conlrarium docet
Hieronymus multis in locisj ac primum in preetatione in quatuor evangelia ad
Damasum expresse testatur, has editiones paucis acceptas esse : Praetermitto
eos codices, &c. Vides igitur, lector, intra provincias jam dictas a paucis, qui
etiam perverse contenderent, fuisse suscepta Hesychii et Luciani exetnplaria
Scripturarum. Non idem sentiendum de codicibus elaboratis ab Origene.
Ilia namque editio Celebris adeo fuit apud omnes, ut publice usurparetur in
cunctis christianorum ecclesiis, &c. Martian. Annot. ad Praef. Hieron. in
Paralip. T. i. p. 1023. ^ Et dubito quidem ego, utrum Lucianus
et Hesychius editionem Origenianam unquam oculis usurparint, necne : quandoquidem
earn a Pamphilo primum et Eusebio in lucem fuisse emissam verisimilius
videtur. Hod. de Bibl. Text. Orig. 1. iv. c. iii. p. 628.
* 'E/35o/xj> TTaXivKai TtXtvraia tpfitjvtia ij r« ayta AaKiava^K. X. Syn. S. S.
Ap. Athan. T. ii. p. 203. " Vid. Hod. p. 626, 627.
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