6 End of the fourth century.
Question 5: Whether the distinction of chapters should be attributed to Ezra.
§ 117. (V) The question arises: should we attribute to Ezra the distinction of chapters? Some answer in the affirmative and think that it was because of this that Ezra was called 
, or “scribe.” On the other hand, others think that this must rather be attributed to the Masoretic scholars because it is not very accurate but often tears apart related materials. Against this argument, proponents of the former position argue that Ezra had the chief position among the Masoretes and thus ought never be separated from their company. There are those who attribute this to Jewish Christians and who want to prove from Balaeus that this came into public use finally around 1220. They believe that Ezra is called “scribe” because he wrote the Hebrew books of the Old Testament in Chaldaic letters, which were better known to the Israelites at that time, just as Origen did in Greek letters. There are those who suspect that he earned the title “scribe” because of his invention of vowel points and accents. What must be concluded about this we shall see in its own place.
6 End of the fourth century.
7 Held in autumn of AD 691. Called by some the Concilium Quinisextum, as being supplementary to the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils.
8 Not Franciscus, but Alphonsus Tostatus.
9 By Augustinus Hibernicus, AD 655.
10 Read cum fuerint extra arcam instead of cum non fuerint extra arcam.
11 That is, the translators of the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint.
12 Held in AD 397 under the presidency of Bishop Aurelius of Carthage. St. Augustine was in attendance.
13 Held in 1439.
14 Read interdum Baruch instead of it. Baruch.
15 In English Bibles: the “Book of Jasher.”
16 In English Bibles: the “Chronicles of the Seers.”
17 Here it is argued that in Ezek. 9:4, where the Hebrew for “mark” is simply the letter 
, the ancient form of this letter was in the shape of an X or +. See Horace D. Hummel, Ezekiel 1-20, Concordia Commentary (St. Louis: Concordia, 2005), 275.