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hexapla

(ˈhɛksəplə)
n
(Bible) an edition of the Old Testament compiled by Origen, containing six versions of the text
[C17: from Greek hexaploos sixfold]
ˈhexaplar, hexaplarian, hexaplaric adj
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El Salterio Galicano es la traduccion que hace Jeronimo partiendo de la edicion hexaplar de Origenes y se incluyo en la Vulgata tras la reforma liturgica impuesta por Alcuino de York en el Imperio Carolingio.
Persona en el seno materno (Sal 139, 13.15-16a)
36-40) that, in Isaiah, Vaticanus is a Hexaplar witness, and thus has been modified through Origen's undertaking by which he revised the text back towards the Hebrew.
It is Vaticanus that omits it, as Rahlfs clearly indicates; or, more exactly, a group of Hexaplar MSS including B (details in Ziegler).
Paul and the LXX: a note on some recent work

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