[The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John Burgon]@TWC D-Link bookThe Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels CHAPTER X 25/97
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and the Versions these critics are sufficiently accurate: but they have fatally misapprehended the import of the Patristic evidence; as I proceed to explain. The established Septuagintal rendering of Isa.xxix.13 in the Apostolic age proves to have been this,--[Greek: Engizei moi ho laos outos tois cheilesin auton timosi me]: the words [Greek: en to stomati auton, kai en] being omitted.
This is certain.
Justin Martyr[287] and Cyril of Alexandria in two places[288] so quote the passage.
Procopius Gazaeus in his Commentary on Origen's Hexapla of Isaiah says expressly that the six words in question were introduced into the text of the Septuagint by Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion.
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