Second, from the quoting of the Greek version in the Old Testament.
Second, from the quoting of the Greek version in the Old Testament.
§ 346. (II) From the quoting of the Greek version in the Old Testament. “Christ and the apostles in the New Testament speak Hebrew words just as they are contained in the version of the Septuagint translators; with regard to the vowels, they are much different from the Hebrew pointing, as is especially apparent from the genealogy of Christ in Matthew 1 and Luke 3.” We respond. (1) What Christ and the apostles quote from the Old Testament agrees with the Hebrew text in sense, though not in letters and words. (2) The fact that in their quoting they follow the Septuagint translation rather than the Hebrew text occurred because at that time the Greek version was the one most ordinary and common, as we have shown earlier from Jerome. (3) The fact that the Septuagint reads some things in the Old Testament differently from what the genuine vowel points demand proves that they used an unpointed edition; but this by no means proves that all versions of the Bible, even those kept in the synagogues, lacked vowel points. (4) The learned doubt, and not without reason, whether the Greek version now extant is the one of the Septuagint translators. Bellarmine, De verbo Dei, bk. 2, c. 6: “Although I am not unaware that there are some who hold the opinion that they think that the translation of the seventy elders has completely perished, I think it is much more probable that it has survived but that it is so corrupt and faulty that it seems to be something completely different.”