Third, from the diverse readings of proper names.
Third, from the diverse readings of proper names.
§ 347. (III) From the diverse readings of the proper names. “The Septuagint translators and the author of the Latin Vulgate version, as also Jerome, write many proper names of patriarchs, kings, high priests, priests, prophets, cities, etc., with far different vowels and points than we read in the Masoretic or pointed texts, as is evident from the translations of the Hebrew names that Jerome and Arias Montanus provide.” We respond. (1) In the case of proper nouns, the translators have not carefully and scrupulously observed the individual letters and points of letters but occasionally inflect one carelessly for the sake of euphony. (2) Any language conforms some foreign proper nouns according to the judgment of its own ears, so that occasionally you scarcely recognize whether they are the same or different. The name of the prophet 
the Latins pronounce “Ezekiel.” (3) If one were able to infer from the inflection of proper nouns made by translators that the vowel points are a recent invention of the rabbinic scholars, one could infer from the same principle that a change was also made in the consonants themselves. Nevertheless supporters of this opinion do not allow that.