There was a Latin version made from the Septuagint, including the Apocrypha, in Africa, and in use there at the end of the second century, very barbarous, and copying even Greek constructions. Of this text SS. Ambrose and Augustine used a recension. But our author seems to have been very independent, and to have made use of several different versions of holy Scripture, translating, as it would seem, often for himself from the Septuagint, referring also to Symmachus, Theodotion, and Aquila, though thinking less of the latter. When the prophets, he says, were moved by the Holy Spirit, they were troubled and darkened with their own ignorance. De Abrah. II. 61. Prayer, he asserts, is necessary for understanding holy Scripture. Ps. cxviii. 59. Each Testament is not equally easy, and we are not to criticise what we do not understand. Ep. 63–78, De Parad. II. 7. He speaks of the Hebrew as the truth, De Noe et Arca, XII. 60. but states that the Septuagint added much that is useful. Hexaëm. V. 20.