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FWIW, Matthew Poole in his preface to the Synopsis says: Quote:
The Greek Septuagint: thus called, because it is said to have been produced by seventy-two, or, when they declare it by the round number, seventy learned men. Whether those translators really only translated the Pentateuch, or the entire Old Testament; whether it is the true stock of those translators which we have in our hands, or rather a counterfeit, hitherto theologians are debating: “It is not for us to settle such great disputes.”1
[1] Virgil, Eclogue 3:108.
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"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole
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