The
obelus (†) is used by Jerome to mark superfluous matter in the
lxx. cf. Jer. p. 494, in Canon Fremantle’s
Translation. The addition in question appears neither in the
Vulgate, nor in Aquila, or Symmachus, or Theodotion. Ambrose,
however, in Hexæm. iii. 5 approves of
it.